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WHAT'S NEW in
linkage analysis software list
(1997)

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• 11/25/97
  GAS is no longer mirrored at the US site at ftp://linkage.rockefeller.edu/software/gas.

• 11/21/97
  A new web page for SIMIBD at http://watson.hgen.pitt.edu/~davis/

• 11/17/97
  A modified version of GENEHUNTER, called GENEHUNTER-PLUS is available from ftp://galton.uchicago.edu/pub/kong

• 11/10/97
  SIBERROR : identify pedigree errors in sibship data;
  GASP starts to have a web page: http://www.nhgri.nih.gov/DIR/IDRB/GASP/,
  and a FTP site: ftp://nhgri.nih.gov/pub/outgoing/gasp/

• 11/04/97
  SOLAR : sequential oligogenic linkage analysis routines

• 11/03/97
  GEMS : genetic epidemiology models;
  PDPSYS : pedigree data processing systems
  PEDCHECK : identify Mendelian inconsistencies in pedigree data
  RELPAIR : check putative sib pairs
  

• 10/15/97
  updated infomation for FASTLINK

• 09/21/97
  the web page for PROGENY is http://www.progeny2000.com

• 09/17/97
  documentation for GENEHUNTER is added.

• 07/16/97
  documentation for SIMULATE is added.

• 07/15/97
  DMAP : disequilibrium mapping

• 07/10/97
  NOCOM : estimate parameters for mixture of normal distributions (version: Aug 1992). User's guide at http://linkage.rockefeller.edu/ott/NOCOM.htm

• 06/20/97
  gCONVERT : converting formats for different programs
  [NOTE: GCONVERT is now retired]
  SIB-PAIR : several non-parametric analysis

• 06/14/97
  ACT : analysis of complex traits, which replaces MAGE (MAGE is now retired from the list).

• 05/29/97
  PANGAEA : pedigree analysis for genetics (and epidemiology attributes), consists of BOREL, HARDY, MORGAN and PEDPACK (from E.A. Thompson's group).

• 05/17/97
  LINKBASE: a window-based database system designed to manage genetic data

• 05/14/97
  GAP: genetic analysis package from Epicenter Software

• 05/02/97
  TWOLOC : analyzing two-locus susceptibility gene models in affected sib-pair data

• 04/30/97
  - DMS : a database management system for use with positional mapping projects.
  [NOTE: DMS is now retired]
  - FAST-MAP (Fluorescent Allele-calling Software Toolkit: Microsatellite Automation Package)'s home is added: http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~genome/FAST-MAP.html

• 04/29/97
  LINKSYS is retired from the list by the author's request.

• 04/28/97
  - SPERM: analysis of sperm typing data;
  - WEB-PREPLINK : web interface for praparing "datafile" for LINKAGE;
  - K.Lange's software is now available for downloading from http://www.sph.umich.edu/group/statgen/klange/lange.html ;
  - ANALYSIS is renamed GENTOOLS ;
  - LDB is renamed LDB/LDB+;
  - MAP and MAP+ are combined to MAP/MAP+/MAP+H;
  - PEDRAW is renamed PEDRAW/WPEDRAW ;
  - CHROMLOOK is retired from the list by the author's request.

• 04/07/97
  CASPAR : computerized affected sibling pair analyzer and reporter

• 02/05/97
  CROSSFIND : detecting meiotic breakpoints

• 01/06/97
  BLOCK : blocking Gibbs sampler for pedigree analysis

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