Introduction

bpf90tools is a tool that is a wrapper over the BLUPF90 - https://nce.ads.uga.edu/wiki/doku.php?id=start family of programs written in python3.

The toolkit is designed for ease of use and automation of the design process pipelines for assessing the breeding value of farm animals. The tools include the following capabilities:

• Interface to renumf90, remlf90, airemlf90, blupf90 and blupf90+(in development) - the main utilities for tribal value estimation calculations and other tasks.

• Interface for generating configuration files.

• Modules for processing of configuration files, for processing of output files and results, which are generated by f90 programs: solutions, renaddxx.ped, param, (ai)remlf90.log.

Note

Official information, documentation for BLUPF90 can be found at this link - https://nce.ads.uga.edu/wiki/doku.php?id=documentation. There is also a link for download - https://nce.ads.uga.edu/software/.