Description

Mega stands for Manipulation Environment for Genetic Analyses. Mega2 is a data-handling program for facilitating genetic linkage and association analyses.

Version

Type mega2 on command line

Sample session

% mega2
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                          MEGA2 4.2
  by Daniel E. Weeks, Nandita Mukhopadhyay, Lee W. Almasy,
            William Mullvihill and Mark Schroeder
     Copyright (c) 1997-2009 The University of Pittsburgh
     Last updated: May 14 2009, 07:24:45, valid until June 15, 2009.
     Mega2 comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY.
See LICENSE.txt for terms of copying, modifying & redistributing Mega2.
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                 Mega2 input menu:
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0) Done with this menu - please proceed
 1) Input file extension:                 01
 2) Locus datafile:                       _
 3) Pedigree datafile:                    _
 4) Map datafile:                         _
 5) Omit datafile (optional):             _
 6) Frequency datafile (annotated only):  _
 7) Penetrance datafile (annotated only): _
 8) Directory for writing output:         [ Current directory ]
 9) Simulate genotyping errors:           [no ]
 10) Include all pedigrees whether typed or not (based on fully_typed
 genotypes)
 11) Warn if allele frequency error measure exceeds: No limit
 12) Unknown allele & affection value(annotated only): NA
Select from options 0-12 (9 to toggle) > 

Documentation

http://watson.hgen.pitt.edu/docs/mega2_html/mega2.html