Genetic Linkage

[Tandy Warnow]

	        Time:          2 p.m. Monday, Sept. 11th
		Place:	       Austrian Theater (Clinical Research Building) 
                               University of Pennsylvania
                               Philadelphia PA


		     FASTER GENETIC LINKAGE COMPUTATIONS

                            Dr Alejandro Schaffer,

                National Center for Human Genome Research (NIH)
                
                                    and

                       Department of Computer Science,
                               Rice University


Genetic linkage analysis is a statistical technique used to map genes and 
find the approximate location of disease-causing genes. For the past 
three years, we have been working to improve the performance of the most 
popular general-purpose linkage analysis software package, called 
LINKAGE. Our new package, called FASTLINK, is now in use around the world 
on uniprocessors. We have also made parallel implementations of three of 
the main programs in FASTLINK that run either on networks of 
uniprocessors or on shared-memory multiprocessors.