R/GENABEL

Record added by Jurg Ott (the original Rockefeller list)

Version

1.6-4 (August 2010)

Description

GenABEL is a software created to facilitate whole-genome association analysis. Specific features of GenABEL include: * Support of modern methods for analysis in outbred populations * Maximum Likelihood estimation of linear, logistic and Cox regression on genome-wide scale * A range of functions specifically designed to help GWA analysis in samples of individuals from genetically isolated populations, and/or samples of related individuals (family-based design), and other analysis in presence of stratification * Special functions oriented to meta-analysis * Extensive documentation (about 100 pages of reference manual and 150 pages of tutorial) * Many example data sets and exercises

URL

  • http://mga.bionet.nsc.ru/~yurii/ABEL/GenABEL/

  • http://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/GenABEL/index.html

    Language

    R

    Reference

    Aulchenko, Ripke, Isaacs, van Duijn (2007), “GenABEL: an R library for genome-wide association analysis”, Bioinformatics, 23(10):1294-1296.