Software Tools for Animal Gene Mapping

The following software is available free of charge and may be downloaded from this site directly. This software is supported in part by the Cargill Horizon Research Program, USDA NRICGP grant #03275, USDA NRICGP grant #04216, and the Agricultural Experiment Station, Supercomputing Institute, Grant-in-Aid, and Digital Technology Center of the University of Minnesota.

Contact yda@umn.edu for further information.

is a parallel computing program for epistasis testing in genome-wide association studies for supercomputers and commodity clusters. Version 2.0 is now available.

is a computer package of serial computing programs for genome-wide testing of SNP epistasis and single-locus effects of complex or quantitative traits. Version 2.0 is now available.

is a computer program for calculating statistical power and sample size for detecting QTL and candidate gene effects, including single-locus effects and pairwise epistasis effects. Version 1.0 is now available.

is a computer package designed for rapid linkage analysis and map construction of loci with a variety of inheritance modes. Version 1.1 is now available.

is a pedigree and genealogy visualization program specifically designed to draw large, complex pedigrees. Trial version 2.3 is now available.

is a program for calculating and minimizing inbreeding coefficients. Version 2.0 is now available.