title: MareyMap: an R-based tool with graphical interface for estimating recombination rates.
abstract: Comparing genetic and physical maps (the so-called Marey map approach) is still the most widely used approach to estimate genome-wide recombination rates. Remarkably, there is no available bioinformatics tool specifically devoted to Marey map approach. Here, we developed such a tool called MareyMap based on GNU R and Tcl/Tk. MareyMap offers a user-friendly graphical interface and includes useful features, such as data cleaning process, sophisticated interpolation methods to estimate local rates, possibility of complex queries, various range of import-export files. Moreover, MareyMap comes with ready-to-use maps for human, Drosophila, Caenorhabditis elegans and Arabidopsis. MareyMap has been made so that it can be easily upgraded with new data and interpolation methods.
  
  
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  http://pbil.univ-lyon1.fr/software/mareymap/.
authors.affiliation: Université de Lyon, France.
authors.forename: Clément
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Rezvoy
authors.forename: Delphine
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Charif
authors.forename: Laurent
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Guéguen
authors.forename: Gabriel A B
authors.initials: GA
authors.lastname: Marais
mesh_terms: D002874:Chromosome Mapping / Q000379:methods*; D003196:Computer Graphics; D003198:Computer Simulation; D014644:Genetic Variation / Q000235:genetics*; D008957:Models, Genetic; D011381:Programming Languages; D011995:Recombination, Genetic / Q000235:genetics*; D012984:Software; D014584:User-Computer Interface