ALOHOMORA Copyright (c) 2003-2007 Franz Rüschendorf


ALOHOMORA is a software tool designed to facilitate genome-wide linkage
studies performed with high-density single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP)
marker panels such as the Affymetrix GeneChip(R) Human Mapping 10K Array.

In ALOHOMORA_M M stands for Mega chips. Use this version for 500K 
or 1M arrays.

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The ALOHOMORA software package can be downloaded for free by non 
commercial users. Request the source code of alohomora.pl by email
from Franz Rüschendorf. Email: fruesch@mdc-berlin.de
Modifications are only allowed for a personal use, it's not allowed to
distribute the modified source code. 



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If you use ALOHOMORA in any published work please cite:

Ruschendorf F, Nurnberg P.
ALOHOMORA: a tool for linkage analysis using 10K SNP array data.
Bioinformatics. 2005 May 1;21(9):2123-5.