{"id":744,"date":"2025-07-12T12:40:47","date_gmt":"2025-07-12T17:40:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/open.qtlmax.com\/guide\/?p=744"},"modified":"2026-02-11T09:39:12","modified_gmt":"2026-02-11T15:39:12","slug":"best-linear-unbiased-prediction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/open.qtlmax.com\/guide\/index.php\/2025\/07\/12\/best-linear-unbiased-prediction\/","title":{"rendered":"Best linear unbiased prediction"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Figure 1 displays the BLUP tab page selected. After clicking the <strong>[Phenotype (CSV)]<\/strong> button and selecting a phenotype file in CSV format, the header values of the phenotype file will be listed in the &#8220;Columns&#8221; text box. (Figure 1)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1007\" height=\"961\" src=\"https:\/\/open.qtlmax.com\/guide\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Screenshot-from-2026-02-11-07-38-15.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1220\" srcset=\"https:\/\/open.qtlmax.com\/guide\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Screenshot-from-2026-02-11-07-38-15.png 1007w, https:\/\/open.qtlmax.com\/guide\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Screenshot-from-2026-02-11-07-38-15-300x286.png 300w, https:\/\/open.qtlmax.com\/guide\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Screenshot-from-2026-02-11-07-38-15-768x733.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1007px) 100vw, 1007px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>(Figure 1)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The BLUP tab requires a few settings, each configured as follows:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ol start=\"1\" class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Send the header value designating the sample to the &#8220;<strong>Sample column<\/strong>&#8221; textbox.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Send the header value designating the phenotype to the &#8220;<strong>Phenotype column<\/strong>&#8221; textbox.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>If categorical header values for environmental factors (e.g., <strong>location<\/strong>, <strong>year<\/strong>, <strong>replication<\/strong>, <strong>treatments<\/strong>) exist, send them to the &#8220;<strong>Covariates (categorical)<\/strong>&#8221; textbox.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n<p>After completing all settings, click the <strong>[Execute]<\/strong> button to start the BLUP calculation. Figure 2 shows the appearance.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1007\" height=\"961\" src=\"https:\/\/open.qtlmax.com\/guide\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Screenshot-from-2026-02-11-07-38-59.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1222\" srcset=\"https:\/\/open.qtlmax.com\/guide\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Screenshot-from-2026-02-11-07-38-59.png 1007w, https:\/\/open.qtlmax.com\/guide\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Screenshot-from-2026-02-11-07-38-59-300x286.png 300w, https:\/\/open.qtlmax.com\/guide\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Screenshot-from-2026-02-11-07-38-59-768x733.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1007px) 100vw, 1007px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>(Figure 2)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Figure 1 displays the BLUP tab page selected. After clicking the [Phenotype (CSV)] button and selecting a phenotype file in CSV format, the header values of the phenotype file will be listed in the &#8220;Columns&#8221; text box. (Figure 1) (Figure 1) The BLUP tab requires a few settings, each configured as follows: After completing all [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-744","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-guide"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/open.qtlmax.com\/guide\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/744","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/open.qtlmax.com\/guide\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/open.qtlmax.com\/guide\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/open.qtlmax.com\/guide\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/open.qtlmax.com\/guide\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=744"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/open.qtlmax.com\/guide\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/744\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1223,"href":"https:\/\/open.qtlmax.com\/guide\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/744\/revisions\/1223"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/open.qtlmax.com\/guide\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=744"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/open.qtlmax.com\/guide\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=744"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/open.qtlmax.com\/guide\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=744"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}