The method was developed by Laurent Excoffier, Peter Smouse and Joseph Quattro at Rutgers University in 1992.
This program, which runs on Windows, is called Arlequin and is freely available on Excoffier's website.
There are also implementations in R language in the ade4 and the pegas packages, both available on CRAN (Comprehensive R Archive Network).
An additional free statistical package, GenAlEx,[2] is geared toward teaching as well as research and allows for complex genetic analyses to be employed and compared within the commonly used Microsoft Excel interface.
This software allows for calculation of analyses such as AMOVA, as well as comparisons with other types of closely related statistics including F-statistics and Shannon's index, and more.