WIJSMAN@SAAM.BIOENG.WASHINGTON.EDU (02/12/91)
I am aware of 2 programs which will draw pedigrees under MS DOS. A note on one of them, PEDRAW, recently appeared in Annals of Human Genetics (1990) 54:365-367. I have no experience with this program. A second program is one developed here at the University of Washington, called GENETREE. GENETREE uses a commercially available driver package, and thus has distribution restrictions. We are looking into possible options to be able to make the program available, either to individuals who already have a copy of the graphics drivers, or to those willing to pay some royalty fee to the company. We are also trying to convince the company that the royalty fee should be reduced or eliminated for academic users. GENETREE has worked very well for me because of its flexibility. Input is a flexible ascii file containing at a minimum for each individual: id and parents' ids, and sex if symbols are to be squares and circles. The following are possible: multiple marriages, inbreeding loops (except cross generational inbreeding), marriages without progeny, a slash for dead, 33 different shading patterns, split and whole symbol shading, diamonds if sex is not specified, progeny with only one parent in the pedigree, generation numbers, possibility of up to 25 text and/or number fields around and in an individual's symbol (positions can be user specified), ability to control size and/or spacing of pedigree symbols, titles, ability to take input from either a file or from the keyboard, displays pedigree to screen, printer or plotter, can be used in batch mode or interactively (to "fiddle" with the display options), and can print multiple page pedigrees. For information on GENETREE, contact me by e-mail at wijsman@saam.bioeng.washington.edu.
BISHOP@msrcvax.bitnet (03/08/91)
> I am a junior biology major at Central Connecticut State Univ. who is currently > taking a genetic analysis course. I am wondering if anyone out there has > information on a pedigree drawing package that will run on a Macintosh SE with > System 6.05. Thanks. > > --Dan Lettiere An excellent and well supported pedigree drawing program for the Macintosh is "Pedigree/Draw 4.0". Contact Bennett Dyke at: Population Genetics Laboratory Department of Genetics Southwest Foundation for Biomedical Research San Antonio, TX 78284 -David F. Bishop DFBMS@MSRCVAX.bitnet