QTL Cartographer is a suite of programs for mapping quantitative trait loci (QTLs) onto a genetic linkage map.

This package consists of several programs that perform various tasks, including simulating, reformatting or analyzing data and visualizing the results of the analyses.

All input and output files are plain text.

The programs in the package include:

• Emap
• Rmap
• Rqtl
• Rcross
• Qstats
• LRmapqtl
• SRmapqtl
• Zmapqtl
• JZmapqtl
• MImapqtl
• MultiRegress
• Prune
• Preplot
• Eqtl