QUICK BUILD
Describe your family — get an instant pedigree chart
Quick Build is the fastest way to create a publication-ready pedigree without manual box-drawing. Instead of connecting individual lines and assigning shapes by hand, describe the family structure in plain English. The engine automatically parses family relationships, determines generational hierarchy, and applies standard pedigree notation symbols.
How Quick Build works: from sentences to canvas
A seamless 4-step workflow that transforms conversational family descriptions into accurate, fully editable vector charts.
Input Conversational Prompts
Type plain English sentences describing family members, generational ties, and medical conditions into the Quick Build dialog.
Deterministic Local Parsing
The in-browser engine parses relationships, identifies sibling clusters, and maps health traits to standard pedigree notation symbols.
Inspect & Canvas Fine-Tuning
The resulting family tree appears directly on the interactive canvas. Reposition nodes, modify symbols in the inspector, or run auto-layout.
Vector & Print Export
Download publication-grade vector SVG, high-resolution PDF with medical borders, or PNG images for research records or clinical charts.
Supported phrasing & relationship syntax
Quick Build recognizes everyday English terms for partnerships, descent, medical traits, and clinical roles. Review the table below for supported sentence patterns and their resulting pedigree elements.
| Category | Sample Phrasing | Pedigree Output & Notation |
|---|---|---|
| Partnerships & Unions | “A man and a woman…” “John married Sarah…” “Divorced in 2018…” “First cousins…” | Creates biological or legal union lines; double lines for consanguinity; diagonal slashes for divorce/separation. |
| Children & Sibling Cohorts | “They have two sons and a daughter…” “Oldest child is a son…” “Third child…” | Arranges children horizontally beneath the parent union line in specified chronological birth order. |
| Twins & Special Births | “Identical twin boys…” “Fraternal twins…” “Twin sisters with unknown zygosity…” | Draws twin branches meeting at a single descent point; adds a horizontal bar for monozygotic pairs. |
| Adoption & Rearing | “Adopted a daughter…” “Son was adopted into the family…” “Adopted out…” | Encloses symbol in brackets [ ]; generates solid biological or dashed adoptive descent lines. |
| Phenotypes & Carrier Status | “Affected with cystic fibrosis…” “Carrier mother…” “Presymptomatic at age 25…” | Shades symbols, adds central carrier dots or quadrant marks, and registers the trait in the chart legend. |
| Clinical Markers & Deceased Status | “The son is the proband…” “Died at age 68 from heart failure…” “Stillborn…” | Applies proband arrow (P), deceased diagonal slash, or pregnancy loss symbols with optional age annotations. |
Complete conversational walkthrough
See how a continuous multi-generational narrative is converted into an organized three-generation medical pedigree.
Input Description
“Arthur and Beatrice have three adult children: Charles, Diana, and Edward.”
“Arthur is affected with Huntington disease and died at age 62.”
“Charles married Fiona and they have two children: Grace (affected, proband) and Henry.”
“Diana has identical twin boys, Jack and Liam, who are both unaffected.”
“Edward is adopted into another family.”
Constructed Pedigree Model
- • Generation I: Arthur (square, shaded, diagonal deceased slash, age 62 note) partnered with Beatrice (circle, unaffected).
- • Generation II: Charles (square, affected), Diana (circle, unaffected), and Edward (square, bracketed with dashed adoptive descent line).
- • Generation III: Grace (circle, shaded, proband arrow P), Henry (square, unaffected), and twins Jack & Liam (mono-zygotic branches with horizontal bar).
- • Inheritance Pattern: Autosomal dominant transmission clearly visible from Arthur (I-1) to Charles (II-1) to Grace (III-1).
Quick Build frequently asked questions
Does Quick Build send my family data to an external AI server or cloud LLM?
No. Quick Build operates entirely client-side inside your web browser. Relationship parsing, graph assembly, and symbol generation run in local JavaScript without sending any text or health records across the internet.
Can I continue editing the chart on the drag-and-drop canvas after Quick Build finishes?
Yes. Quick Build simply initializes the canvas project. Once loaded, you can freely drag nodes, add spouses or siblings with toolbar buttons, change trait colors, and edit individual details in the inspector panel.
What happens if a sentence has an ambiguous relationship?
Quick Build interprets sentences conservatively. If a relationship cannot be resolved unambiguously (such as “his cousin” without specifying maternal or paternal lineage), it alerts you or creates an unlinked relative so you can connect the line manually.
Can Quick Build handle multi-generation families with multiple diseases?
Yes. You can describe parents, grandparents, aunts, uncles, and multiple conditions (e.g. “grandmother had breast cancer, father has colon cancer”). Each distinct condition is created as a separate trait in the color-coded legend.
Does Quick Build work offline without an active internet connection?
Yes. Because our application is a Progressive Web App (PWA) with client-side execution, Quick Build works completely offline once cached.
Ready to build your pedigree?
Launch Quick Build inside the maker in one click. All data remains 100% private in your browser. Prefer to explore existing charts? View our starter templates, inspect case study examples, or practice with a blank canvas.