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+Stacks is a software pipeline for building loci from short-read sequences, such
+as those generated on the Illumina platform. Stacks was developed to work with
+restriction enzyme-based data, such as RAD-seq, for the purpose of building
+genetic maps and conducting population genomics and phylogeography.