What is DNAVIEWTM?
An integrated software package for DNA identification
| Uses:
| investigation of paternity cases, crime cases, disaster identification, and for research |
| Data:
| PCR systems including STR's, SNP's, and polymarkers; single- or multi-locus RFLP
autosomal, Y-haplotype, X-linked |
| Platform:
| Windows XP, Vista, 98, etc. Or DOS. |
History
DNAVIEW is the acknowledged leader and standard worldwide for DNA identification.
Leading paternity and crime laboratories have been using it since
1988. They appreciate not only the reliability and sophistication of
the software, but also the authority that it represents
I personally designed, wrote, and support it. The design, especially
in the details, owes much to direct interaction and feedback from many users.
Disaster identification
In September 2001 DNAVIEW immediately became part of the World Trade Center
victim identification work; it is the main analysis tool for DNA identification.
The screening module and the
Kinship program are the essential tools for finding and
verifying DNA identifications, especially those where the
link is to living relatives.
DNAVIEW was widely used in Thailand as well as
in Germany and Austria for tsunami victim identifications, and is also used for other
mass identification projects including desaparacito children from El
Salvador and war victims in Bosnia, Japan, Kuwait,
and Iraq.
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- analyzes all irregular cases including reconstruction, deficiency, incest,
missing body, inheritance,
even twin zygosity
- incorporates Y-haplotypes
- Kinship Simulation permits predicting the
potential utility of DNA for a kinship problem.
Applications include immigration casework in several countries;
identifying Croatian & Bosnian war dead, Argentine orphans,
SwissAir crash victims,
World Trade Center victims
Paternity case analysis routine version
Crime case calculators
Disaster identification
See above.
- Screening module
- Kinship
- Kinship simulation
Populations
| VWA allele frequencies
Caucasian
Black
Japanese |
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- Allele/fragment length frequency databases:
- available for all common loci and probes
- compile automatically from your own case data
- import or type in
- graphical display (screen, printer, or research
paper) and comparison
- Convicted offender database capability
database search for duplicates or for a specified pattern
- Database validation:
Data Acquisition
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| Import data from various platforms including the ABI 3xxx, and the Hitachi FMBIO
|
- STR/PCR input automatic
(ABI GeneMapper, Genotyper, Genescan, Hitachi STaRCall data files)
or manual (type or mouse-click)
- RFLP-VNTR various methods
- Database validation & statistics
- estimate mutation rates from casework data
- PC (sorry, no Mac version. Even Mac running Windows simulator didn't work.)
- DOS-compatible laserjet (preferred) or inkjet printer
- DNAVIEW costs $7500. This price includes:
- 1.5 days installation and (travel expenses are additional),
- a year of program and of mathematical and
software technical ,
- exchange of DNAVIEW via the DNAVIEW Users' Group.
- DNAVIEW User's . The 300+ page book
- explains all the programs,
- includes a tutorial giving keystroke-by-keystroke instructions for routine work,
- has discussions on fundamental issues of statistics and probability,
- is thoroughly indexed and illustrated.
- DNAVIEW is in use at about 100 laboratories in six continents (Antarctica please come in).
References available on request.
footnote
By DOS-compatible I mean that the printer has resident fonts. Some
cheaper ones don't. Normally the printer has a way to print out a technical specification sheet and it
will list the resident fonts if any. But if there are none, it certainly will not tell you so. You have
to infer a negative.
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