MapPop

Software for selective mapping and bin mapping

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 Available on this page are:

• MapPop executables (for Windows) and its documentation, along with sample files and license: zip file (1.2 MB).
• MapPop documentation a la carte: .ps version (235 k), .pdf version (110 k).
• Sample data files in text format: framework data (3 k) and new marker data (5 k)
• The MapPop license: text file (2 k).
• Papers which describe the underlying ideas in MapPop:
  • Vision TJ, Brown DG, Shmoys DB, Durrett RT, Tanksley SD (2000) nbsp; Selective Mapping: A strategy for optimizing the construction of high-density linkage maps. Genetics 155, 407-420.
  • Brown DG, Vision TJ, Tanksley SD (2000) Selective mapping: A discrete optimization approach to selecting a population subset for use in a high-density genetic mapping project. Proceedings of the 11th Annual {ACM-SIAM} Symposium on Discrete Algorithms: 419-428.
  • Xu Z, Zou F, Vision TJ (2005) Improving QTL mapping resolution in experimental crosses by the use of genotypically selected samples. Genetics 170, 401-408.

Daniel G. Brown
Department of Computer Science
University of Waterloo

Todd J. Vision
Department of Biology
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Development of this software was supported by NSF grant DBI-98-72617 (PI: Steve Tanksley), NSF grants CCR-970029 and DMS-9805602 (PI: David Shmoys), ONR grant N0014-96-1-00500 (PI: Michael J. Todd) and by support from the Center for Agricultural Bioinformatics (formerly the Center for Bioinformatics and Comparative Genomics) of the United States Department of Agriculture, Agricultural Research Service.
 
 

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