Software packages

Developed by Paul VanRaden and coworkers

1986-2024

 

Packages:

FACTORS

A set of programs to apply new factors for age, parity, season, and previous days open to compare cows more fairly within herds. Age-Parity-Season-PreviousDaysOpen Adjustment Factors and Software - 2024

BESTPRED

A set of programs for best prediction of lactation yields

FINDHAP

A program to find haplotypes and impute genotypes from multiple marker sets and sequence data

FINDMAP

A set of programs to align sequence reads to reference map, call previous variants, and identify new variants

FIXPED

A program to check pedigree relationships and discover additional relatives

GENOSIM

A set of programs to simulate genotypes, breeding values, phenotypes, and DNA sequence read depth and to resolve SNP conflicts between parent and offspring genotypes

NONADD

A set of programs to create sparse inverses for dominance and epistatic pedigree relationship matrices and solve the mixed model equations

REMLM

A set of programs to estimate variances and covariances by sire model REML using pedigree relationships

 


Licenses

This software was developed and maintained at the USDA Agriculture Research Service, is in the public domain, and may be modified and redistributed at will.