DESCRIPTION

Rmap creates a random map of molecular markers. The user specifies the number of chromosomes, the number of markers per chromosome and the average intermarker distance. If one specifies standard deviations for the number of markers and the average intermarker distances, they will vary subject to the normal distribution. The output gives a table of markers by chromosomes, with the distances between consecutive markers (in centiMorgans) in the table.

If you specify an input file, Rmap will open it, determine if it is in the same format as Rmap outputs, and process it based in the value given to -g. If the input file is the output of MAPMAKER, then the map will be reformatted from MAPMAKER into the Rmap output format.

Finally, there is a standard input format that Rmap can translate, and is defined in the file map.inp that comes with the distribution of the programs. Note that if the user specifies an input file, no simulations will be done and the latter half of the command line options are ignored.