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popmin is a program to compute minimal population sizes in marker-assisted backcross programs written by F Hospital and G Decoux

Documentation

User's manual

PDF version:   popmin-manual.pdf
Postscript version:   popmin-manual.ps

Program outline

Hospital, F., Decoux, G. (2002) Popmin: a program for the numerical optimization of population sizes in marker-assisted backcross programs. J. Hered., 93: 383-384.   [PDF]

Theoretical background

Hospital F. (2001) Size of Donor Chromosome Segments Around Introgressed Loci and Reduction of Linkage Drag in Marker-Assisted Backcross Programs. Genetics 2001 158: 1363-1379. [Reprint (PDF)]  

Program files

NOTE:
TO DOWNLOAD THE FILES ON YOUR HARD DRIVE
HOLD DOWN THE 'SHIFT' KEY THEN CLICK ON THE FILES WITH THE LEFT MOUSE BUTTON (EXAMPLE FOR NETSCAPE)

Archives

popmin-src.tar.gz   archive of program source files only (10 Ko)
popmin.tar.gz   complete archive (all files listed in this page, 537 Ko)

Help file

popmin-help.txt   help identical to output of 'popmin -h'

Source files

popmin is written in ANSI C

Makefile   needed to compile the program using make (unix and linux)
interf.h   header file
siman.c   the simulated annealing routines extracted from GSL
cokus.c   random number generator needed by siman
popmin.c   the complete popmin program itself including online help

Executable files

popmin.exe   MS-DOS executable (under Windows, open an MS-DOS command window first)
popmin   Linux executable
popmin-sol   Solaris executable

Sources directory

src/

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Frederic Hospital

Last modified: Thu Jul 4 19:45:40 CEST 2002