AlphaMate

Description

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AlphaMate is software package for optimising selection, maintenance of diversity, and mate allocation in breeding programs. A range of breeding programs can be optimised with AlphaMate (animal, crop, tree, fish, ...). A short description is given in Gorjanc and Hickey (2018), while a detailed description is given in the manual. All information on the desired targets, mating constraints, and optimisation controls is specified in a single parameter file.

Environment Modules

Run module spider alphamate to find out what environment modules are available for this application.

System Variables

• HPC_ALPHAMATE_DIR - installation directory
• HPC_ALPHAMATE_BIN - executable directory

Additional Information

This software only runs on Intel CPU's, make sure to request a partition with Intel hardware.

Citation

If you publish research that uses AlphaMate you have to cite it as follows:

Gorjanc, G, Hickey, JM (2018) AlphaMate: a program for optimising selection, maintenance of diversity, and mate allocation in breeding programs. Bioinformatics bty375; doi:, https://doi.org/10.1093/bioinformatics/bty375.