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GWASTools: an R/Bioconductor package for quality control and analysis of genome-wide association studies.
Bioinformatics (Oxford, England) - 15 Dec 2012
Gogarten Stephanie M, Bhangale Tushar, Conomos Matthew P, Laurie Cecelia A, McHugh Caitlin P, Painter Ian, Zheng Xiuwen, Crosslin David R, Levine David, Lumley Thomas, Nelson Sarah C, Rice Kenneth, Shen Jess, Swarnkar Rohit, Weir Bruce S, Laurie Cathy C
Abstract excerpt
GWASTools is an R/Bioconductor package for quality control and analysis of genome-wide association studies (GWAS). GWASTools brings the interactive capability and extensive statistical libraries of R to GWAS. Data are stored in NetCDF format to accommodate extremely large datasets that cannot fit within R's memory limits. The documentation includes instructions for converting data from multiple formats, including...
Topics
- Genome-Wide Association Study
- Genotype
- Humans
- Polymorphism, Single Nucleotide
- Quality Control
- Software