CoCoa -- COefficient of COAncestry software
What you can do:
Find information about the ancestral relationship between genes.
Highlights:
- CoCoa is a software tool that implements the most commonly used marker-based coancestry estimation procedures and allows to select the best fitting covariance structure for the phenotypic data at hand.
- This better model fit translates into an increased power and improved type I error control in association studies and an improved accuracy in phenotypic prediction studies.
- It also provides an implementation of the new Weighted Alikeness in State (WAIS) estimator for use in hybrid breeding programs.
- CoCoa uses two different bending heuristics, in case the inverse of an ill-conditioned coancestry matrix estimate is needed. Source code, manual, binaries for 32 and 64-bit Linux systems and an installer for Microsoft Windows are provided.
Keywords:
- coefficient of coancestry
- phenotype
- genotype
- marker-based coancestry estimation
- covariance matrix
- phenotypic prediction
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This record last updated: 10-30-2009