GenAlEx offers data import from several popular formats and tools for importing and manipulating raw data from DNA sequencers. Export to more than 30 other data formats is provided, enabling access to myriad other software packages. For example, direct export is offered to such programs as GENEPOP (Rousset 2008) and STRUCTURE (Pritchard et al. 2000), and via these same formats to many other programs, including genetic packages in R such as adegenet (Jombart 2008) and pegas (Paradis 2010).