Record added by Jurg Ott (the original Rockefeller list)
Finds starting points for MCMC analysis performed on large, complex pedigrees and polymorphic markers.
S Lin (Ohio State Univ)
http://www.stat.ohio-state.edu/~statgen/SOFTWARE/START/
UNIX(Solaris), Linux
Y Luo, S Lin (2003), “Finding starting points for Markov chain Monte Carlo analysis of genetic data from large and complex pedigrees”, Genetic Epidemiology, 25:14-24.