Monthly Archives: February 2008

PyPedal can now import and export GEDCOM 5.5 files

Posted on February 19, 2008 by jcole

It took me most of the day but I finally have the GEDCOM import and export working correctly. Only a small subset of the GECDOM standard is supported, but most of the information that can be exchanged in GEDCOM files … Continue reading →

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PyPedal now calculates ancestral inbreeding coefficients

Posted on February 13, 2008 by jcole

PyPedal can now calculate ancestral inbreeding coefficients using either the recursion equation of Ballou (1997) or the gene dropping method of Suwanlee et al. (2007). Ancestral inbreeding is the probability of an individual inheriting an allele that has undergone inbreeding … Continue reading →

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PyPedal now calculates partial inbreeding coefficients

Posted on February 8, 2008 by jcole

After sitting on the “coming soon” list for a couple of years PyPedal can finally calculate coefficients of partial inbreeding! As side effect, the pyp_nrm/reorder() routine now moves all founders to the beginning of the pedigree. In the past, founders … Continue reading →

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Installing eric4 and QScintilla2 from source on Kubuntu 7.10

Posted on February 6, 2008 by jcole

I wanted to install eric4 to compare it to KDevelop as an environment for Python development. I could not find any packages for eric4, and in order to install it from source I needed to build and install both QScintilla2 … Continue reading →

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