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Introduction
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BayesNetty is a C++ program written to perform Bayesian network analyses using genetic and phenotypic data.

BayesNetty is copyright, 2015-present Richard Howey, GNU General Public License, version 3.

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The **recommended use** of BayesNetty is to calculate the average network as described in the :ref:`Average Network<average-network>` section,
possibly additionally using imputation to fill in missing data as descibed in :ref:`Impute Data<impute-data>` section.
However, for new users we recommend you work your way through all sections in numerical order,
in order to understand the functionality of the program.