PARENTE 1.2 – Computer Program for Parentage Analysis

PARENTE 1.2

:: DESCRIPTION

PARENTE is a user-friendly software package that conducts parentage inference using molecular data from diploid codominant markers. Based on the principle of genetic compatibility, PARENTE looks for maternity, paternity, or simultaneously for both potential parents, using multilocus genotypes and birth and death dates of individuals (if available). It also calculates the probability of successfully allocating an individual offspring to its parents.

::DEVELOPER

Laboratoire d’Ecologie Alpine

:: SCREENSHOTS

:: REQUIREMENTS

Windows

:: DOWNLOAD

PARENTE

:: MORE INFORMATION

Citation

Cercueil Alain, Eva Bellemain and Stéphanie Manel,
PARENTE: Computer Program for Parentage Analysis
Journal of Heredity, 93: 458-459

CERVUS 3.0.7 – Parentage Analysis

CERVUS 3.0.7

:: DESCRIPTION

Cervus is the software package for parentage analysis in plant and animal populations. It combines a robust likelihood-based method with a simple graphical interface.

Cervus is a computer program for assignment of parents to their offspring using genetic markers.

Cervus uses likelihood, a well-established statistical method for parentage analysis, to assign parentage. Cervus introduces two key enhancements to this process:
1) Likelihood ratios are calculated allowing for the possibility that the genotypes of parents and offspring may be mistyped.
2) Cervus determines via simulation the level of confidence in the parentages it assigns.

Cervus represents an easy-to-use and practical tool for scientists seeking to establish parent-offspring relationships even when some genotypes are incomplete, incorrect or missing.

::DEVELOPER

Field Genetics

:: SCREENSHOTS

:: REQUIREMENTS

Windows

:: DOWNLOAD

Cervus

:: MORE INFORMATION

Citation

Mol Ecol. 2007 Mar;16(5):1099-106.
Revising how the computer program CERVUS accommodates genotyping error increases success in paternity assignment.
Kalinowski ST1, Taper ML, Marshall TC.

SOLOMON 1.0-1 – Parentage Analysis using Bayes’ Theorem

SOLOMON 1.0-1

:: DESCRIPTION

SOLOMON is a comprehensive parentage program that implements Bayes’ theorem to perform a wide variety of parentage analyses. No information about the number of parents sampled or genotyping error rates are required. Parentage analyses are implemented for scenarios with (1) no known parents, (2) 1 known parent (e.g., known mothers), and (3) known parent-pairs. SOLOMON also performs Mendelian exclusion, a priori power analyses, and can be used to created simulated data sets with user-specified numbers of true parent-offspring pairs, unrelated individuals, and genotyping error.

:: DEVELOPER

Mark Christie

:: SCREENSHOTS

:: REQUIREMENTS

Windows / Linux / MacOsX
R package

:: DOWNLOAD

SOLOMON

:: MORE INFORMATION

Citation

Bioinformatics. 2013 Mar 15;29(6):725-732. Epub 2013 Jan 30.
Bayesian parentage analysis with systematic accountability of genotyping error, missing data and false matching.
Christie MR, Tennessen JA, Blouin MS.