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PEDIGREE VIEWER
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Written by Brian and Sandy Kinghorn.
The program reads your simple data file and displays the full pedigree structure on the screen. Each animal is represented by its identity, or its name, or by its value for any of the traits in the data file. You can display a large pedigree of thousands of animals all on the screen at the one time. Data are overlapped on the screen for such large pedigrees, but in one mode an individual's information is highlighted as the mouse cursor passes over. You can ask to find an animal(s) by identity, or by merit or merit range for a given trait.
A single click changes between fields in the data file, or displays just relatives (of chosen degree) of the animal clicked. With one more click you can then organise the pedigree picture to be most clear for just those animals. Animals of high merit can be shaded more brightly, giving quick access to those with high merit. You can also zoom into interesting parts of the pedigree, change the font displaying data, check for logical errors, alter the display of pedigree links and make other manipulations to give a suitable display, and print the result.
Inbreeding coefficients and BLUP estimates of breeding value can be calculated and added to the list of displayable data. The program can be useful for navigating around a pedigreed data set to get a feel for its structure and any problems it might contain. Embryo transfer matings are usually easy to spot. By shading fields and possibly sorting horizontally, phenotypic and EBV trends can be quite noticeable. The program runs under Microsoft Windows 95/98/NT/XP.
Recent version changes …
| 5.1 | 26. 3.03 | More speed: Fast sequencing and progeny vectoring - dramatically faster for very large files. Screen placement improved, drawing of arcs improved, dynamic window resizing. Bugs fixed: Last character and trailing spaces trait reading error. Unix file end-of-line error. Running BLUP with two single-character fixed effects adjacent to each other. BLUP now handles 5000 effects per fixed effect group. |
| 5.2 | 28.02.05 | Bugs fixed: Now reads eg 2..1 or +-3 as alphanumeric; Was numeric, resulting in zero. Unlisted parents had non-null fields after sequencing. h2 and missing value numbers in BLUP dialog box accumulated digits. Negative Spacing in Statistics window fixed. Reload dimension bug fixed. Not showing last field in header line, in comma and tab delimited files. Automatic redrawing option no longer reset by program. Can now handle more than 2^15 - 1 animals in each tier. Missing data in unlisted parents now allocated a value of . rather than 0 |
| 5.3 | 07.06.05 | Selfing handled properly for drawing pedigree diagram, and for
calculating inbreeding coefficients. Rare BLUP convergence bug fixed. Bugs introduced in 5.2 fixed: Non-numeric trait and covariable values in BLUP, field shading now working with unlisted parents. |
| 5.4 | 03.10.06 | Now uses faster inbreeding routine (Bruce Tier) when there is no selfing, else uses method that handles selfing (Theo Meuwissen). New option to dump .csv sequential ID file to read in Microsoft Excel. Bug Fixed: "Input past end of file" when calculating inbreeding coefficients. |
| 5.5 | 05.12.06 | Fixed rare but long-lived startup bug caused by non-landscape printer attached "Run-time error '380': Invalid property value" |
Downloading PEDIGREE VIEWER
Download pedigree.zip and
save it in an empty directory on your hard disk (you can delete this directory and all its
files after installation). If you have a capable program such as WinZIP, you
can execute SETUP.EXE directly. Otherwise unzip the file. If you do not have
an unzipper, you can download pkunzip.exe, into the
same directory, and then run:
pkunzip pedigree.zip at the DOS prompt.
Three files will be produced. Run the file SETUP.EXE and follow instructions. [NB. You may
be told that some system files need updating. This is done by Microsoft, whose
recent VB6 compiler was used for making Pedigree Viewer. In this case you will need
to re-run SETUP.EXE after updating your system files. If you have a
problem, go to http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN;q191096]. After installation, a start menu
item which runs the installed program will result.
Use the program's Help menu to get started.
Good Luck!
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