12th Edition new features

Key new features:

The GenStat Server has been upgraded to Release 12.1

• Release 12.1 includes 2 new directives, 42 new procedures and 41 new functions.

New supported file formats

• Support for Cornell ecology file formats.
• Support for MapQTL loc and map files.
• Support for R/QTL rotated comma-delimited separate genotype (csvsr) files.
• Support for Stata 10 files.

Graphics enhancements

• Ability to include oblique axes.
• Interactive tools including hotpoints to show/hide items.

New statistical and graphics menus

Regression

• Quantile regression menu for fitting quantile regression models.
• Parallel regression analyses.
• Ability to display confidence intervals for parameter estimates.

Design

• Ability to link to CycDesigN.

Analysis of Variance

• Display all standard error of differences in General Analysis of Variance menu.
• Trellis plot of means.

Multivariate Analysis

• Biplots added to principal components and canonical variates analysis menus.
• Permutation tests availible for MANOVA.

Survey Analysis

• Hot deck imputation menu for survey data.

Meta Analysis

• GGE biplot menu.
• Menu for calculating stability coefficients.

QTL Analysis

• QTL workbook for storing data structures for use within QTL menus.
• Menus for importing phenotypic and genotypic data.
• Preliminary single environment analysis of phenotypic traits using mixed model analysis.
• Summary statistics between environments menu.
• Selecting the best variance-covariance model for a set of environments.
• Display genetic map and diagnostic plots of marker genotype scores.
• Calculating genetic predictors for QTL analysis.
• QTL Genome scan menu using simple and composite interval mapping.

New spreadsheet facilities

General

• Ability to display a single 3+ way table or multiple 2+ way tables within a tabbed table.
• Highlight rows in a spreadsheet from points selected using data info within the Graphics Viewer.
• Factor divide menu allowing a set of factors to be formed with a set of levels for every level of another
  factor.
• Factor standarize menu allowing a set of factors to be standardized so that the levels or labels are the same
  for all factors.
• Shortcut function keys on the Calculate submenu of the Spread menu have been changed.

New documentation

• A Guide to the GenStat Spreadsheet.
• A Guide to Survey Analysis in GenStat.