pedigreejs: a web-based graphical pedigree editor.

MOTIVATION

The collection, management and visualization of clinical pedigree (family history) data is a core activity in clinical genetics centres. However, clinical pedigree datasets can be difficult to manage, as they are time consuming to capture, and can be difficult to build, manipulate and visualize graphically. Several standalone graphical pedigree editors and drawing applications exist but there are no freely available lightweight graphical pedigree editors that can be easily configured and incorporated into web applications.

RESULTS

We developed 'pedigreejs', an interactive graphical pedigree editor written in JavaScript, which uses standard pedigree nomenclature. Pedigreejs provides an easily configurable, extensible and lightweight pedigree editor. It makes use of an open-source Javascript library to define a hierarchical layout and to produce images in scalable vector graphics (SVG) format that can be viewed and edited in web browsers.

AVAILABILITY AND IMPLEMENTATION

The software is freely available under GPL licence (https://ccge-boadicea.github.io/pedigreejs/).

CONTACT

tjc29@cam.ac.uk.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION

Supplementary data are available at Bioinformatics online.