When
May 13 - 31, 2024, Athens, GA
From 9:00am to 5:00pm

Course Venue
Department of Animal and Dairy Science
425 River Road, Athens GA 30602

The classes and labs will be on the first floor
Morning lectures: Room #114 or 101
Lunch: Room #136
Afternoon labs: Room #116 or 101

Important: bring your own laptop

BLUPF90 programs BLUPF90 Download

QMSim genomic data simulator QMSim Download

It allows one to use Linux graphical applications remotely:

Xming Xming X Window System Server - for Windows

XQuatz X Quartz - for Mac

It allows one to access an account on a Unix or other multi-user system from a PC:

Putty 64-bit: putty.exe (the SSH and Telnet client itself)

MobaXterm Enhanced terminal for Windows with X11 server, tabbed SSH client, network tools, and more.

It is used to transfer files from a server to a PC and vice-versa:

WinSCP WinSCP File Transfer

Editor Notepad++ Notepad++ 64-bit Installer

Click here for a short manual about Fortran performance best practices.

Computational Techniques in Animal Breeding

BLUPF90 Manual

Introduction to BLUPF90 suite programs

Bases for Genomic Prediction

Bases for Genomic Prediction: slides

Reliable computing in estimation of variance components - Misztal 2009

Introduction to BLUPF90 Family

Introduction to RENUMF90

Introduction to Unix tools

Quality Control of SNP datawith preGSf90 and qcf90

Non-additive effects in genetic evaluations

Creating genomic relationship matrices with preGSf90

SNP effects from ssGBLUP using the BLUPF90 family

1) The preferred OS is Linux. All students will have access to a Linux server during the course.

3) If you have problems executing the BLUPF90 binaries in Linux or MacOS, change the permission for the file using the following command

chmod a+x <filename>

or

chmod 777 <filename>

4) If you try to run any program and get a message about segmentation fault, this is because the program tried to access an inappropriate memory area or accessed it abnormally.

When the program fails (crashes) without any messages, most likely, a segmentation fault has occurred.

There are possible reasons for this error.

• Missing configuration in your computing environment
• Running out of free memory
• A bug in the program

Please type the following command before running the BLUPF90 programs.

ulimit -s unlimited