{"id":15400,"date":"2011-12-03T23:00:26","date_gmt":"2011-12-04T07:00:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/?p=15400"},"modified":"2011-12-20T22:58:06","modified_gmt":"2011-12-21T06:58:06","slug":"ftdna-conference-2011-elliott-greenspan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/15400","title":{"rendered":"FTDNA Conference 2011 – Elliott Greenspan"},"content":{"rendered":"

At the Seventh International Family Tree DNA Conference for Group Administrators,\u00a0Elliott Greenspan\u00c2\u00a0presented a talk on \u00e2\u20ac\u0153IT Roadmap 2011: The Year in Review and Looking Ahead.”<\/p>\n

\"Elliott<\/a><\/p>\n

Elliott Greenspan<\/em><\/p>\n

SOURCE:\u00a0 Elliott Greenspan (Houston, Harris County, Texas); photographed by Stephen J. Danko on 06 November 2011.<\/p>\n

The Family Tree DNA GAP (Group Administration Page) 2.0 was launched in November 2010 .\u00a0 The Family Finder autosomal DNA test platform was changed from Affymetrix chips to Illumina chips in January 2011 .\u00a0 Family Tree DNA has processed 2.33 PB (petabytes) of matching data for Family Finder.<\/p>\n

The SNP (single nucleotide polymorphism) ordering tree was modified, making it easier to order SNPs .\u00a0 New downstream SNPs were added and the Y-DNA test was expanded from 67 to 111 markers .\u00a0 Family Tree DNA intends to release new SNPs more quickly.<\/p>\n

Family Tree DNA acquired the DNA Heritage Y-DNA (Y chromosomal) database, but not the mtDNA (mitochondrial DNA) database because the two companies did not sequence the same region of mtDNA.<\/p>\n

The myFTDNA 2.0 homepage\u00c2\u00a0will be released soon .\u00a0 Project administrators will be able to try the myFTDNA before the project members .\u00a0 The General Fund is easier to use, a new messaging system from FTDNA to customers has been added, and a new configurable profile for users has been added .\u00a0 Privacy settings have been added to the profile .\u00a0 There are specialized resources for each section of the myFTDNA page, Family Finder matches, new images, a link to the profile, and badges .\u00a0 Y-DNA haplogroup matches have been expanded.<\/p>\n

New features allow you to see matches just for a particular project .\u00a0 A new power\u00c2\u00a0search feature has been added, allowing the user to combine the power of all three DNA types in a search .\u00a0 Family Finder upgrades include new SNPs, fewer false positives, and the ability to upload data from 23andMe (v3 only).<\/p>\n

Microalleles can be displayed on GAP charts .\u00a0 Microalleles are displayed as decimals in three quarter steps:\u00a00.1, 0.2, 0.3 (0.4 is the next higher number of repeats) .\u00a0 Changes in palindromic\u00c2\u00a0markers\u00c2\u00a0are now treated as a single step mutation, rather than multiple step mutations, reflecting the number of events rather than the size of the events .\u00a0 STR (short tandem repeat) values will adhere to NIST standards.<\/p>\n

Copyright \u00a9 2011 by Stephen J. Danko<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

At the Seventh International Family Tree DNA Conference for Group Administrators,\u00a0Elliott Greenspan\u00c2\u00a0presented a talk on \u00e2\u20ac\u0153IT Roadmap 2011: The Year in Review and Looking Ahead.” Elliott Greenspan SOURCE:\u00a0 Elliott Greenspan (Houston, Harris County, Texas); photographed by Stephen J. Danko on … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[27],"tags":[334,177,333],"class_list":["post-15400","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-journal","tag-conferences","tag-dna","tag-ftdna"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pyBfX-40o","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15400","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15400"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15400\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15427,"href":"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15400\/revisions\/15427"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15400"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15400"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15400"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}