6.1 Tutorial Introduction

The input files of the tutorial can be downloaded from the MetaQTL home page. In the following sections we assume that you have correctly installed the MetaQTL jar archive and that you unzip the tutorial archive into the directory data into the current directory. Thus, in the data directory there are the following files:

• experiments.csv : the mapping experiment table
• trait_ontology.csv : the trait ontology table
• marker_dictionary.csv : the marker dictionary table
• genetic-map : a folder which contains the raw genetic maps of the mapping experiments
• qtl-map : a folder which contains the result of the QTL detection for each mapping experiment
• ref-map : a folder which contains the reference map Genetic_2005 from MaizeGDB