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Jun 2008:
Fixed Zero-option in Bias-correction-by-group for whole-pop r matrix.
May 2008
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Calculate pair-wise Relatedness values for large data sets (tested up to 1000 genotypes).
Mar 2008: Display selected genotypes in the Konovalov&Heg(2008b) allele frequency algorithm. Fixed loading missing alleles from a CERVUS file.
Feb 2008
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Activated the KINSHIP allele frequency bias correction option for relatedness.
Feb 2008: Full Sibship Reconstruction algorithms (SDR, MS, MS2) should now work with missing alleles.
Feb 2008
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Manual covering version 1 is now Ch 1. Ch 2 covers new features of version 2.

Run the following versions via Java (TM) Web Start by just clicking on the run links. Download latest Java.

Run the latest build of version 2 (see Manual ch2) for:

  • Konovalov & Heg (2008b). Estimation of Population Allele Frequencies From Small Samples Containing Multiple Generations, Proceedings of 6th Asia-Pacific Bioinformatics Conference. 14-17 January 2008, Kyoto, Japan. Imperial College Press, London, pp321-331 [pdf].
  • Konovalov & Heg (2008). A maximum-likelihood relatedness estimator allowing for negative relatedness values Molecular Ecology Resources , 8 , 256-263 [pdf].
  • Konovalov (2006). Accuracy of Four Heuristics for the Full Sibship Reconstruction Problem in the Presence of Genotype Errors, Tao Jiang, Ueng-Cheng Yang, Phoebe Chen, and Limsoon Wong, editors. Proceedings of 4th Asia-Pacific Bioinformatics Conference, 13-16 February 2006, Taipei, Taiwan. Imperial College Press, London, pp7-16, [ppt] [pdf].
  • Dmitry A. Konovalov, Nigel Bajema and Bruce Litow (2005) Modified SIMPSON O(n^3) algorithm for the full sibship reconstruction problem. BIOINFORMATICS, 21, 3912-3917 [abstract] [pdf].
  • Dmitry A. Konovalov, Bruce Litow and Nigel Bajema (2005) Partition-distance via the assignment problem. BIOINFORMATICS, 21, 2463-2468 [pdf] [appendix]
  • Archive: v2_080620, v2_080520, v2_080411, v2_080229, v2_080214, v2_070127

Run version 1 (see Manual ch1) for:
Dmitry A. Konovalov, Clint Manning, and Michael T. Henshaw (2004)
KINGROUP: a program for pedigree relationship reconstruction and kin group assignments using genetic markers. Molecular Ecology Notes, 4, 779-782 [pdf].

Contacts: dmitry.konovalov@jcu.edu.au , www.it.jcu.edu.au/~dmitry
School of Information Technology, James Cook University, Townsville, Queensland, 4811, Australia
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