Is anyone working on a Julia package or packages to work with pedigrees, in the sense used in animal breeding? Ana Vazquez and I are developing such a package which we plan to call Pedigrees. Its principle type will be Pedigree, which is constructed from two Integer vectors representing the 'sire' and 'dam' of each animal. These names reflect the animal breeding orientation of the package.
Capabilities include sorting a pedigree so that parents occur before offspring and deriving the additive relationship matrix and other quantities related to it, such as inbreeding coefficients. Is using the name Pedigrees going to cause conflicts?
