GAPL (Genetic Analysis Software for Multi-parental Pure-Line Populations) Version 1.0 Released

Multi-parental populations are becoming important genetic resources in plant genetics and breeding. GAPL (Genetic Analysis Software for Multi-parental Pure-Line Populations) is freely-available public software, capable of building high-density genetic linkage maps and mapping quantitative trait loci (QTL) in pure-line populations derived from four-way or eight-way crosses. Three functionalities are implemented in GAPL Version 1.0: (1) BIN, binning of redundant markers; (2) PLM, construction of genetic linkage maps; (3) PLQ, mapping of additive genes. Three methods are available in QTL, i.e., (1) SMA: Single Marker Analysis; (2) IM: the conventional Interval Mapping; (3) ICIM: Inclusive Composite Interval Mapping.

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