Bonaparte DVI is a next generation software system designed to facilitate quick victim identification in case of mass fatalities such as terrorist attacks, airline crashes and natural disasters.

Probabilistic methods

Identification is achieved by using probabilistic methods to model Mendelian inheritance based on information put into the system as pedigrees.
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Client-server architecture

The software system is built following a client-server architecture, where the clients interact with the server via a web interface that runs in a standard web browser. The client-server architecture was chosen in order to accommodate many simultaneous users who can use low cost hardware.
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News

June 18, 2010 Examples for use with the demonstration software and performance data now online (here).

June 03, 2010 Deployment of Bonaparte in Tripoli case covered in dutch national tv news, footage below (in dutch).

May 28, 2010 Bonaparte is deployed at the Netherlands Forensic Institute (NFI) to identify victims from the Afriqiyah Airways crash in Tripoli, Libya.
NFI press release dutch, (english) translation (external page).