As for GLMdb the QTL database consists in as many plain text files as the number of mapping experiments described in the experiment table. Each file must respect the same naming convention as for GLMdb, i.e the stem name of the file must be the name of the corresponding mapping experiment as defined in the map field of the experiment table. Thus if a QTL detection result has been reported for the mapping experiment `exp1' we will have a file exp1.txt. Each file of QTLdb are organized as follows:
group qtl position qtl.ci.lod.decrease qtl.ci.from qtl.ci.to qtl.rsquare qtl.trait.name 1 QTL1 208 1 182 236 0.044 days_to_pollen_shed 1 QTL2 152 1 128 174 0.045 silking_date 2 QTL3 74 1 58 88 0.051 silking_date 2 QTL4 126 1 110 140 0.048 days_to_pollen_shed 3 QTL6 36 1 18 46 0.093 leaf_number 8 QTL5 76 1 60 92 0.21 leaf_number |