Pedigreejs: a web-based graphical pedigree editor.

ABSTRACT:

Motivation

The collection, management and visualization of clinical pedigree (family history) data is a core activity in clinical genetics centres. However, clinical pedigree datasets can be difficult to manage, as they are time consuming to capture, and can be difficult to build, manipulate and visualize graphically. Several standalone graphical pedigree editors and drawing applications exist but there are no freely available lightweight graphical pedigree editors that can be easily configured and incorporated into web applications.

Results

We developed 'pedigreejs', an interactive graphical pedigree editor written in JavaScript, which uses standard pedigree nomenclature. Pedigreejs provides an easily configurable, extensible and lightweight pedigree editor. It makes use of

SUBMITTER: Carver T 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5860312 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature