SNPRelate

Parallel computing toolset for relatedness and principal component analysis of SNP data

Bioconductor version: 3.0

Genome-wide association studies (GWAS) are widely used to investigate the genetic basis of diseases and traits, but they pose many computational challenges. We developed an R package SNPRelate to provide a binary format for single-nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) data in GWAS utilizing CoreArray Genomic Data Structure (GDS) data files. The GDS format offers the efficient operations specifically designed for integers with two bits, since a SNP could occupy only two bits. SNPRelate is also designed to accelerate two key computations on SNP data using parallel computing for multi-core symmetric multiprocessing computer architectures: Principal Component Analysis (PCA) and relatedness analysis using Identity-By-Descent measures. The SNP format in this package is also used by the GWASTools package with the support of S4 classes and generic functions.

Author: Xiuwen Zheng [aut, cre], Stephanie Gogarten [ctb], Cathy Laurie [ctb], Bruce Weir [ctb, ths]

Maintainer: Xiuwen Zheng <zhengx at u.washington.edu>

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source("http://bioconductor.org/biocLite.R")
biocLite("SNPRelate")

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