Windows QTL Cartographer 2.5 - FTP Directory Listing

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12. Click button Refine Model. Select Searching for new QTLs and click button OK. Select
Search for Epistasis and click button Start for searching for QTL interact (epistasis). Answer "Y"
to add the epistatic effect.
13. click button Refine Model. Select MIM Model Summary and click button OK.
14. Select Graphic Result File and click Start to produce result file and show it in graph dialog.
15. click button Refine Model. Select MIM Model Summary and click button OK. Select Model
Summary File and click Start to produce MIM summary information.
16. In tree pane, you can click to show information of breed value, QTL information, R2 partition, and
variance and co-variance table.
17. Click button Finish and button Save to finish the MIM session.
Bayesian interval mapping
1. Select Menu Item File>Open or click to open source data file "wqcart-samp0.mcd".
2. Select Menu Item Method>Bayesian Interval Mapping to enter the Form of BIM.
3. You can click button Parameter to set the BIM parameters.
4. Click button Start to begin CIM analysis.
Result manipulation
1. Start WinQTLCart and select menu item View>Visualize Result or click to open result
file "wqcart-samp0-C.qrt".
2. Use menu item Chrom to select and show one chromosome, all chromosomes, and any number
of chromosomes with different order.
3. Use menu item Traits to select and show any number of traits.
4. Select menu item Tools>Display one page format or click to show graph in different
format.
5. Select menu item Setting>set display parameters or click to adjust parameter of graph.
6. Select menu item Tools>Show QTL information or click to obtain the QTL summary
information from the graph or open a QTL summary file (*.qtl).
7. you can trace on graph by selecting menu item Setting>Trace coordinate in graph or click
. Double click to show the coordinate numbers in graph.
8. You can combine two graphs into one by selecting menu item File>Add QTL result file.
Technical notes
Troubleshooting
1. Errors even to run Single Marker Analysis
WinQTLCart has problem to deal with complex folder and file name. To avoid this problem, please try put
your MCD file in a simple folder such \NCSU\Work1\ and only letter and digital are in file name.