UNKNOWN(1)

💖 UNKNOWN(1) — General Commands Manual 💖

okay bestie, buckle up, we're doing genetics now 🧬✨ this is the unknown page from the General Commands Manual, and no cap, she's a little legend.

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✨ NAME ✨

unknown — identify possible genotypes for unknowns 🫶

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🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

so basically, it's a program to rapidly identify which genotypes are possible for individuals typed as unknowns in the input pedigree. rapid. like, she does not waste your time, periodt.

unknown [ -cl ]

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🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

unknown infers possible genotypes and mating combinations for parents with unknown genotypes — specifically for ilink(1), mlink(1) and linkmap(1). it's giving "backstage crew for the main characters" and honestly? iconic 💅

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🎀 OPTIONS 🎀

• -c — use conditional allele frequencies. 💫
• -l — choose a good set of loop breakers automatically. (not me letting the program make the decisions... lowkey slay 🔥)

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🌈 RETURN VALUE 🌈

• 0 — successful completion ✨ (we love a happy ending)
• 10 — file not found 😭 (the file said "i'm not here")
• 255 — failure 💀

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🍓 ERRORS 🍓

okay so when things go sideways, here's the vibe check:

• 10 — file not found 🙈
• 255 — failure 💀

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👑 EXAMPLES 👑

normally, unknown(1) is run immediately prior to its sister programs, ilink(1), mlink(1) and linkmap(1). like this, bestie:

unknown
mlink

that's it. that's the whole ritual 🕯️✨

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🧚 FILES 🧚

unknown(1) reads two files as its own input:

• pedfile.dat
• datafile.dat

and it produces various temporary files that get used as input to the next program:

• ipedfile.dat
• upedfile.dat
• speedfile.dat
• newspeedfile.dat

so many little files, so much main character energy 🌸

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💜 NOTES 💜

unknown(1) is part of the FASTLINK package, which is a re-implementation of the LINKAGE suite of computer tools that help investigate genetic linkage as first proposed by G.M. Lathrop, J.M. Lalouel, C. Julier, and J. Ott. 🧬 history girlies rise up

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🌟 AUTHORS 🌟

Dylan Cooper, Alejandro Schaffer, and Tony Schurtz — based on work originally by Jurg Ott, Ph.D, et. al. 👑

This manual page was written by Elizabeth Barham <lizzy@soggytrousers.net> for the Debian GNU/Linux system (but may be used by others). ty for your service queen 🫶

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🌐 WORD-WIDE-WEB 🌐

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/CBBResearch/Schaffer/fastlink.html

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🔗 SEE ALSO 🔗

ilink(1), linkmap(1), lodscore(1), mlink(1).

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and that's the whole page, bestie 💖 go forth and find those genotypes ✨

and finally, a lil sign-off: this page is dated April 15, 2003 and it belongs to the UNKNOWN(1) manual. yeah she's vintage, she's still serving 🎀🌈💅