Easylinkage& Easylinkage Plus

Record added by Jurg Ott (the original Rockefeller list)

5.02

easyLINKAGE combines automated setup and performance of linkage analyses and simulation under an easy to handle graphical user interface for Microsoft Windows 2000/XP and standard UNIX systems. The program package supports currently single-point linkage analyses (FastLink, SPLink, SuperLink), multi-point linkage analyses (GeneHunter, GeneHunter Plus, GeneHunter-Imprinting/-TwoLocus, Allegro, SimWalk, Merlin), and the simulation package SLink, and provides genome-wide as well as chromosomal postscript plots of LOD scores, NPL scores, P values, and many other parameters. The software can analyze STRPs as well as SNP chip data from Affymetrix, Illumina, or self-defined SNP data. The program performs single- and multi-point simulation studies.

• Tom H Lindner (email: t-lindner@gmx.de)
• Katrin Hoffmann (email: khoffma@gmx.de)

• http://compbio.charite.de/genetik/hoffmann/easyLINKAGE/
• http://sourceforge.net/projects/easylinkage/

Perl v5.8 (program can be provided as PERL script or as a compiled exe for the use in Windows)

MS-Windows(2000/XP), Linux

linkage_v5.02.exe

• Lindner, Hoffmann (2005), “easyLINKAGE: A PERL script for easy and automated two-/multi-point linkage analyses”, Bioinformatics, 21(3):405-407.
• Hoffmann, Lindner (2005), “easyLINKAGE-Plus - automated linkage analyses using large-scale SNP data” Bioinformatics, 21(17):3565-3567.