Inference of Relationships from Genetic Data

BOREL is a set of programs for evaluating sibship relationships, written by Dr. Ian Painter (1995).

Added, 1996, are a collection of C programs by Elizabeth Thompson for pairwise and parental likelihood analyses.

Note, 2008,; files are converted from old Unix compress (*.Z) to tarred and gzipped files (*.tar.gz).

Name	Description	Size
sibships_95.tar.gz	A set of C programs, test inputs, and test outputs, to compare sibship hypotheses among a set of individuals. For further information, please contact Dr. Ian Painter. A postscript documentation file for sibships_95 is here (66kb).	15kb
estirel_96.tar.gz	Some C programs for computing exclusion probabilities, finding possible parents and parent pairs, estimating pairwise relationships, and finding parental (single and pair) likelihoods. These are updated versions of old programs (1986 and earlier) by Elizabeth Thompson, resulting from work with Dr. T. R. Meagher. They have recently been updated, and modified to allow computations for X-linked loci, in the context of projects with Dr R. Frankham (MacQuarie U.) and Dr Paulo Prohdohl (U. Georgia). They are still under development, and are NOT either efficient or user-friendly. These programs handle genotypic data only -- a couple used to handle phenotypic data, but this is NOT guaranteed.	19kb