1.2 Changes from Version 1.0

The features added to Version 2.0 since Version 1.0 are summarized here. They are described in detail elsewhere in this User's Guide. Reading of this 2.0 User's Guide does NOT require familiarity with any previous edition.

• Band detection may be automatic, semi-automatic, or manual.
• A popup with a 2X magnified crop box.
• Fragment-size editing.
• The gel-format file and template-definition file may be created on-line.
• Lane labels from a given gel-format file may be temporarily edited.
• Lane index labels, lane ID labels, and inheritance codes are shown directly above or below the crop box.
• Three generation, 2 allele system inheritance analysis.
• When inheritance is active, a window containing color-coded alleles and their sizes appears to the left or right of the crop box.
• TIFF images may be input.
• Images with gels whose lane widths vary and/or whose interlane spacing varies may have a user-defined comb-geometry file override the program's automatic lane-detection algorithm.
• Command-line options for specifying gel-format, template, and comb-geometry files AND for specifying that the program use xrdb to load the app-defaults file of X resources.