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WHAT'S NEW in
linkage analysis software list
(1996)

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• 12/12/96
  RELATIVE : relationship estimation

• 12/03/96
  - MAPQTL : mapping quantitative trait loci in plants;
  - the web page for JOINMAP and MAPQTL at http://www.bib.wau.nl/cpro/mapping/

• 11/13/96
  - MAGE : multivariate analysis for genetic epidemiology;
  - links to the online manual pages at Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics for MAGE, MIM, PAP, SIMIBD, SIMWALK, SPLINK

• 11/06/96
  TkMap : drawing genetic maps

• 11/05/96
  GASP : genometric analysis simulation program

• 11/04/96
  - RELTYPE : determine biological relatedness between individuals using allele sharing information of microsatellite loci
  - GASSOC : association analysis using cases and their parents
  - ASPEX : multipoint exclusion mapping of affected sib pair data for discrete traits.
  - FAST-MAP : automated microsatellite genotyping

• 09/27/96
  MULTIMAP 's home page (also the CRIMAP-PVM and LNKTOCRI programs) has been moved from "http://chimera.gene.cwru.edu/multimap.html" to http://linkage.rockefeller.edu/multimap ; and the FTP site has been moved from "ftp://chimera.gene.cwru.edu/pub/multimap" to ftp://linkage.rockefeller.edu/multimap

• 08/27/96
  PROGENY : pedigree drawing and relational database for health care professionals serving families with inherited illness.

• 08/13/96
  peddraw and pedsys's new FTP site ftp://www.sfbr.org/pub/pedmgt and new web page: http://www.sfbr.org/online/special/software/pedmgt.html

• 08/08/96
  typenext and varyphen are now available from our FTP site ftp://linkage.rockefeller.edu/software/typenext and ftp://linkage.rockefeller.edu/software/varyphen

• 06/17/96
  map manager has a new web page: http://mcbio.med.buffalo.edu/mapmgr.html
  and a FTP site ftp://mcbio.med.buffalo.edu/pub/MapMgr

• 05/22/96
  genehunter

• 04/08/96
  gibbs , sibships, another version of pedpack, all distributed from ftp://evolution.genetics.washington.edu/pub/thompson. see http://www.stat.washington.edu/thompson/eat.software.html for a description.

• 03/21/96
  loh-linkage

• 03/18/96
  simibd and its README file.

• 03/04/96
  A new version (2.0) of MAPMAKER/SIBS is available. Here is the annoucement .

• 02/22/96
  A new version (1.2) of DISEQ is available. Here is the annoucement and documentation
  [NOTE: DISEQ is now retired]

• 02/17/96
  Dan Weeks' haplo program (versoin 1.00) is available at ftp://watson.hgen.pitt.edu ; A new version of Joe Terwillinger's analyze program (version 2.1) is available at ftp://linkage.rockefeller.edu/software/analyze

• 02/15/96
  SAGE (Statistical Analysis for Genetic Epidemiology) has a new web page: http://darwin.mhmc.cwru.edu/

• 02/14/96
  RHMAPPER pre-alpha release;

• 01/25/96
  JoinMap 2.0 ; and FASTLINK README files is updated from 2.3P to 3.0P

• 01/02/96
  Dave Curtis's software (CLUMP,DOLINK,ERPA,FASTMAP,FIRSTORD) have a new web address: http://www.gene.ucl.ac.uk/~dcurtis/software.html

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