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The software opens on a welcome homepage giving basic information and enabling opening the attached PDF documentation. This can be done either using the integrated GenAPoPop’s browser, interesting in situations where the software must be deployed on workstations without administrator’s rights or with restricted access (like during practical courses at university), or using the default system PDF file reader, generally more comfortable than basic integrated browsers. Next, users are directed to a tab dedicated to upload and describe at a minimum the composition of the genotype dataset. In this tab, users upload the text file containing the genotypes, inform the header line (after which all lines code for one genotype of one individual), inform the 4 main columns (population, generation, individual identifier, and the column containing the first allele of the first locus), inform the ploidy (from 1 to 50) and the type of markers (SSR-like or SNP-like). Once the dataset is uploaded and the required lines and columns labelled, users are invited to check the data format. If troubles, the verification will report explicit errors to be corrected, returning the problematic line of the dataset. The verification passed, users are then invited to launch one of the three types of analyses performed by GenAPoPop by clicking on the corresponding button opening a dedicated new tab.