Version 2.0 Update Summary

Some of the major changes introduced with PEDSYS Version 2.0 are listed below. For further information send queries to Linda Freeman-Shade.

All Programs

  1. Variable screen dimensions
  2. Easier default responses (fewer keystrokes required)
  3. Data directories now include sub-directories (very useful for managing marker data).

DEVICES file

  1. Longer printer names
  2. New format: (I1,1X,A30,1X,A40)
    where I1=number of fonts (1), A30=Device name, A40=Device description

    1 CON: Console Screen
    000 000 <000>
    <000>


    (Zero console setting defaults to variable screen size)

ALTERDAT

  1. Checks to see if unlinked data file is multiple entry
  2. Gives more default options for Multiple Entry Data File

CALC

  1. Calulate Standard Errors of values on same record
  2. Calculates Z Scores

COUNTPED

  1. Add paternal and maternal ancestral lineage numbers

DATES

  1. 2-character year representation disallowed
  2. Converts 2-character to 4-character year representation

GENCHECK

  1. Has been eliminated, use Infer to detect discrepancies.

GENOMAP

  1. Automatic genotype-phenotype map creation
  2. Y-linked loci added

INFER

  1. Y-linked loci added
  2. Accesses locus subdirectories

PEDTRIM

  1. Allows use unlinked data files with independent pedigree file

SHOWDATA

  1. Now works with unlinked multiple entry files

TALLY

  1. Calculates skewness, kurtosis

TRANSLAT

  1. Eliminated FISHER(SFBR) and IBDMAT
  2. Added SOLAR (MIXED)



Last modified 8 July 1999.

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