NHSE Software Catalog

FASTLINK

url

ftp://softlib.cs.rice.edu/pub/fastlink/fastlink.tar.Z

record_maintainer

Alejandro Schaffer <schaffer@nchgr.nih.gov>

date_of_information

Mon Oct 16 15:24:07 1995

lifn

lifn:nhse:7542bdb1841d0ee6b31f659116f0dbb1

title_line

for finding the approximate location of disease-causing
genes on the human genome.

version

2.3P

pubdate

August 1995

author

Alejandro Schaffer <schaffer@nchgr.nih.gov>

contact

Alejandro Schaffer <schaffer@nchgr.nih.gov>

abstract

FASTLINK is used to find the approximate location of
disease-causing genes on the human genome.

reference

ftp://softlib.cs.rice.edu/pub/fastlink/paper{1,2,3,4}.ps
See README and README.parallel in the same directory for
citation information.

environment

FASTLINK runs on UNIX, VMS, or DOS.
FASTLINK is written in C.
FASTLINK can run in parallel on a shared-memory machine
or a network of uniprocessor UNIX machines

comments

Alejandro Schaffer maintains a mailing list of FASTLINK
users to answer questions and send out bug fixes and
updates.