Hi all, sorry to bother you with a marginal issue, but I am looking for a tool/package for estimating quantitative genetics parameters (heritability, genetic correlations, etc etc.). I found R-genetics, but it seems that those packages have now been cannibalized by BioConductor. The R-genetics mailing list seems somehow not functioning properly, so I was wondering if THIS ML is the designed place to discuss such topics. (I would also like to understand a little bit further how good these packages are at the moment - GeneticsPed taskview says "Note that package is not yet stable. Use it with care!") Best, paolo -- Paolo Innocenti Department of Animal Ecology, EBC Uppsala University Norbyv?gen 18D 75236 Uppsala, Sweden

> Hi all, > > sorry to bother you with a marginal issue, but I am looking for a > tool/package for estimating quantitative genetics parameters > (heritability, genetic correlations, etc etc.). > > I found R-genetics, but it seems that those packages have now been > cannibalized by BioConductor. The R-genetics mailing list seems somehow Nothing was "cannibalized". R-genetics developers wanted to capitalize on Bioconductor infrastructure to aid their effort and their users and this was arranged. > not functioning properly, so I was wondering if THIS ML is the designed > place to discuss such topics. Up to a point. Have you looked at, e.g., http://lib.stat.cmu.edu/R/CRAN/web/views/Genetics.html the task view for genetics software in R? > > (I would also like to understand a little bit further how good these > packages are at the moment - GeneticsPed taskview says "Note that > package is not yet stable. Use it with care!") This should be brought up with the maintainer of that package, but perhaps users on the list will comment.