The BLUPF90 family of programs is a statistical software package used in
quantitative genetics for
animal
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and
plant breeding. It can fit
mixed model
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...
s using
restricted maximum likelihood as well as
Gibbs sampling to estimate variance components, and predict breeding values via
best linear unbiased prediction (BLUP).
Coded in
Fortran, it can perform
genomic selection on hundreds of thousands of
genotyped individuals.
Compiled versions of BLUPF90 are freely available for research, and can be used on Linux, Microsoft Windows and Mac OS X. There also exists an add-on to
R (programming language)
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.
https://famuvie.github.io/breedR/
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References
External links
BLUPF90 home page
Statistical software
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