Sammendrag
Background: The ubiquity of pedigrees in many scientifc areas calls for versatile and user-friendly software. Previously published online pedigree tools have limited support for complex pedigrees and do not provide analysis of relatedness between pedigree members.
Results: We introduce QuickPed, a web application for interactive pedigree creation
and analysis. It supports complex inbreeding and comes with a rich built-in library of
common and interesting pedigrees. The program calculates all standard coefcients of
relatedness, including inbreeding, kinship and identity coefcients, and ofers specialised plots for visualising relatedness. It also implements a novel algorithm for describing pairwise relationships in words.
Conclusion: QuickPed is a user-friendly pedigree tool aimed at researchers, case workers and teachers. It contains a number of features not found in other similar tools, and
represents a signifcant addition to the body of pedigree software by making advanced relatedness analyses available for non-bioinformaticians.
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