Hi,
Is it a general trend that linkage analysis problems are getting
larger and requirements for memory exponentially increasing?
Will the developments in mapping technology such as the use of
microsatellites produce data with more and more alleles, (eg. 20
and beyond)?
With Lathrop & Lalouel's linkage analysis package (version 5.1),
we already considering increasing the number of alleles from the
defaults [currently 5 to 12 alleles depending upon the program]
up to 20.
Have the authors of the above package ever considered converting
over to C for the next release and also using dynamic memory
allocation? (The latter would save having to recompile the
programs, everytime a problem with different requirements is run.)
I would be interested in any comments or ideas.
Cheers,
Peter Woollard
Computing Services Section,
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