Dear all,

We are pleased to announce that CRAN now hosts our packages DNAmixturesLite and KinMixLite.

These are fully R-based versions of our packages DNAmixtures and KinMix, which rely on a commercial software, HUGIN, for performing efficient computations in Bayesian networks. The lite versions rely instead on gRain for such computations.

DNAmixtures provides statistical methods for DNA mixture analysis and has been used to provide statistical evidence pertaining to DNA in several criminal cases in the UK and Denmark. The purpose of the newly released lite version is to allow users without a HUGIN software license to experiment with the statistical methodology. While the lite version aims to provide full functionality, it is noticeably less efficient than the original DNAmixtures package. For details on implementation and methodology see <https://dnamixtures.r-forge.r-project.org/>.

KinMix builds upon DNAmixtures and is a toolbox of methods for inference about relationships between contributors to a DNA mixture and other individuals of known genotype: a basic example would be testing whether a contributor to a mixture is the father of a child of known genotype. KinMixLite builds upon DNAmixturesLite and provides most of the functionality of the KinMix package, but with some loss of efficiency. The package implements the methods introduced in Green, P. J. and Mortera, J. (2017) <doi:10.1016/j.fsigen.2017.02.001> and Green, P. J. and Mortera, J. (2021) <doi:10.1111/rssc.12498>.

Regards,
Therese Graversen and Peter Green

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