Madeline2 on Helix
The Madeline 2.0 Pedigree Drawing Engine is a pedigree drawing program designed to handle large and complex pedigrees with an emphasis on readability and aesthetics. For complex pedigrees a hybrid algorithm is used in which consanguinous loops are drawn as cyclic graphs whenever possible, but acyclic graphs are resorted when matings can no longer be connected without line crossings. A similar hybrid approach is used to avoid line crossings for matings between far-flung descendants of different founding groups. Written in object-oriented C++ and released under the GNU General Public License (GPL), Madeline 2.0 reads input files specified on the command line and generates pedigree drawings without user interaction. Pedigree output in scalable vector graphics (SVG) format can be viewed in browsers with native SVG rendering support such as Firefox 1.5+ and Opera 9.0+, or in vector graphics editors such as Inkscape. The Madeline 2.0 Pedigree Drawing Engine was written by Edward H. Trager, Ritu Khanna, and Adrian Marrs and the Copyright (c) 2006, 2007 is held by the Regents of the University of Michigan.
The environment variable(s) need to be set properly first. The easiest way to do this is by using the modules commands as in the example below.
[user@helix]$ module avail madeline ----------------------------- /usr/local/Modules/3.2.9/modulefiles -------------------------- madeline/2.0 [user@helix]$ module load madeline [user@helix]$ module list Currently Loaded Modulefiles: 1) madeline/2.0 [user@helix]$ module unload madeline [user@helix]$ module load madeline/2.0 [user@helix]$ module list Currently Loaded Modulefiles: 1) madeline/2.0 [user@helix]$ module show madeline ------------------------------------------------------------------- /usr/local/Modules/3.2.9/modulefiles/madeline/2.0: module-whatis Sets up madeline 2.0 prepend-path PATH /usr/local/apps/madeline/2.0/trunk/src -------------------------------------------------------------------
How To Use
$ cd /home/$USER/run1 $ module load madeline $ madeline2 [option]... [file]...)
Documentation
http://eyegene.ophthy.med.umich.edu/madeline/documentation.php
