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Editing the wiki

Information about the wiki editing system we use is at:

http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki

In particular, for how to edit see:

http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Editing_pages

For basic text formatting markup see:

http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Formatting

For debugging see:

http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/How_to_debug_MediaWiki

About Java

For general information about the Java programming language see:

http://java.sun.com

For downloading Java see:

http://java.sun.com/javase/downloads/index_jdk5.jsp

For information on installing Java in a MAC OSX environment see:

http://developer.apple.com/mac/library/qa/qa2001/qa1170.html

File formats

You can find out about the LINKAGE program and the parameter and pedigree files used to format data at:

http://linkage.rockefeller.edu/

There is a program called Mega2 that translates genetic data between various file format. Information can be had at:

http://watson.hgen.pitt.edu/docs/mega2_html/mega2.html

Terminology

Definitions of some of the terms used in these pages.