Status number calculation

Three programs have, to my knowledge, been developed for status number calculations. Two can be downloaded from this site,  click here to see these files on this directory save needed files a directory in your computer.

The most recent was released by TJ (Tim) Mullin (Biosylve) 2009. It is FreeWare for scientific purposes. Download the file statnumTM.exe (and optional sample data Jicaque.xls and Jicaque.txt). The program can be run from this site for familiarising, but it is not recommended because of problems with the paths to input and output data files. It uses an efficient shortcut to avoid having to assemble the relationship matrix for the entire pedigree, which can be extremely large in some applications, requiring huge amounts of memory and computational time.

Milan Lstiburek has developed a program, which can be used for status number calculation, as well as complete coancestry matrixes. The program (an EXCEL file) can be downloaded from http://fle.czu.cz/~lstiburek/

An early program was developed on New Zealand by Gea, Jefferson and Weaver. The more recent programs are easier to use and less constrained, so this program is here mainly for historic reasons. Where is a manual, "manual.doc", in word, a "status.exe" program and two example data sets "ex**.dat" in ascii. Download and run from your own computer! Note that the organised example is simpler to start with as the other has examples of mistakes. Note also that nothing happens after loading until you ask for a calculation. Prize or blame could be directed to  LGea@hortresearch.co.nz

Tutorials material relating to coancestry, status number and the "status number algorithm"

Literature, Lindgren D, Gea LD, & Jefferson PA 1997. Status number for measuring genetic diversity. Forest Genetics 4(2) 69-76

This file was last edited  2009-06-24