To better support our staff in complying with the UK and Scottish Governments' social distancing policies during the current COVID-19 pandemic, BioSS has switched to a home-based, remote working model for our activities.
We have made strenuous efforts to ensure that our staff will be efficient and effective while working from home, and our intention is to continue to operate as best we can during the outbreak. Research and consultancy work is ongoing, and training courses are now taking place online.
All BioSS staff are contactable by electronic means, and we are happy to arrange virtual meetings with new and existing collaborators.
BioSS is a founder member of the Scottish COVID-19 Response Consortium which is developing open source epidemiological models of COVID-19 spread designed to inform policy. BioSS staff are contributing through the management team and via development of detailed large scale simulation modelling, statistical inference of model parameters from data and information processing pipelines.
TetraploidSNPMap is a program for estimating linkage maps and mapping QTLs for autotetraploid species, using SNP dosage data. It was developed for analysing data from the Infinium 8300 potato SNP array, but is equally applicable to other species and SNP dosage data from other technologies. It analyses data scored on two parents and the full-sib offspring of a cross between them.
The theory underlying the program is described in detail in the publications:
TetraploidSNPMap is distributed with a detailed user manual and test datasets from these papers.
TetraploidSNPMap is free to download and use, but you must register and agree to abide by its license first.
TetraploidSNPMap is open source. The source code is available on GitHub.
Our earlier software, TetraploidMap for Windows, which analyses presence/absence data for dominant and/or codominant markers in the same type of autotetraploid population, is still available and can be downloaded here:
Please contact Christine Hackett with any further queries you may have about this software.