PedRo: Pedigree drawing software in Persian language to facilitate the process of documenting patient’s information in medical centers with the ability to export (.pro) format

Introduction of a designed software: The pedigree drawing software are so important in genetic and medical laboratory for documenting the patients’ information. But unfortunately there are limitations in the available software in this area. Some examples of these limitations are: some tools only can run in special devises with special platforms (Windows, Linux, or Mac os) and also only in 32 or 64 bit Windows, some tools don’t have the ability to save the documantation as a recoverable file, and if the present procedure complete, it is not possible to make future change on it, some tools are not easy to use, especially for simple technicians in the medical clinics. Here, in Iran we need a tool with Persian language to be user Fridley for all the users. Furthermore, I had so much problems when I was performing my MSc thesis with the available pedigree drawing tools: some of them did not work on my laptop computer, some of them did not be recoverable and for any little changes I should to draw all the pedigree from the first. So I decided to designed a tool for the other students and also easy use in clinics.Some features of my designed PedRo tool are: Simple and intuitive graphical interface for pedigree drawing, Follows conventions (symbols that used in genetic pedigree), Multiplatform (Windows, Mac OS, Linux), It can Exports file in several formats: PED, PRO, BOADICEA, JSON, It is in Persian language for easier use of all users.In the first scene of the software, with a tool bar is above of the screen, you can choose the template icon. There are some common templates and you can choose one of them to continue the pedigree drawing procedure. Then when you draw your complete pedigree you can click on each individual to change the sex, add spouse, add parent, add children, add sibling and others. Also by clicking on each individual icon, you can insert the personal and clinical features of them in their documents.Here you can select the sex, affected or healthy status, date of birth and so on. In tool bar we have an automatic layout icon that by clicking on it the layout of the pedigree will change automatically and you can decide which one is bather and more simple to understand. By clicking on renumbering icon, all the individuals will be numbered by the inserted order. This numbering is useful for finding the parsons and also is necessary for the .pro extraction file. In export icon, we can export our pedigree in several different formats. The most usable format is .pro that is not available in every tools. Because this format is requiring to importing file in other genetic tools for example easylinkage and haplotypepainter. This format has 7 columns with specific character for them.