The mission of the GenABEL project is to provide a free framework for collaborative, robust, transparent, open-source based development of statistical genomics methodology. We aim to streamline methodology discussion, development, implementation, dissemination and maintenance; through the community.
Follow us on [ Twitter ] [ Facebook ] READ MOREProbABEL v0.4.0 released
Sun, 08/25/2013 - 22:57 — lckarssenThe ProbABEL development teams is happy to announce the release of ProbABEL v0.4.0.
The most important user-visible changes are:
1) the output files now contain a column with chi2 values.
2) the CoxPH module is now fully functional again and can use filevector (DatABEL) files as well
3) for those of you who use probabel.pl: the way the -o option works has been slightly changed.
Thanks to all who made this release possible, by providing code, by being beta testers, by suggesting enhancements, or otherwise.
(Please click on "read more", below, for more details.)
New mailing list for announcements of new package versions
Tue, 07/16/2013 - 16:24 — lckarssenA new mailing list (genabel-announce for short) has been created so we can more easily inform our users of new versions of existing packages as well as of new packages that have been added to the GenABEL project.
The GenABEL project at UseR!-2013
Sun, 07/14/2013 - 18:40 — yuriiLast week (July 10, 2013), Yurii Aulchenko presented the GenABEL project at the UseR!-2013 conference at Albacete, Spain. Short report and highlights are available from Yurii's blog. The presentation and its source is available on our web-site (section Showcase/Presentations).
A manuscript on a new region-based association analysis method and GRAMMAR+ transformation
Tue, 07/02/2013 - 11:42 — yuriiThe team led by Prof. Axenovich has published the manuscript on "Region-Based Association Analysis of Human Quantitative Traits in Related Individuals". Additionally to providing a region-based analysis method, the manuscript also features description of the GRAMMAR+ transformation, which allows treating transformed trait values as if they were measured in a population-based study of unrelated individuals. [click on 'READ MORE' below for complete story]
The GenABEL project: more open than ever!
Tue, 06/25/2013 - 21:24 — yuriiWe are glad and proud to announce that the open source GenABEL project became even more open with the release of the source of the "GenABEL tutorial". The source material is released under the CC-BY-SA 3.0 license. Everybody is invited to copy, modify, extend, and share the source further.
CRAN release of GenABEL package v. 1.7-6
Sun, 05/26/2013 - 10:01 — yuriiThe GenABEL package version 1.7-6 has been released on CRAN, and versions for Linux, Mac and Win are already available at the time of writing.
Beta version of OmicABEL released
Tue, 04/16/2013 - 08:33 — yuriiThe OmicABEL (pronounced as "amicable") package allows rapid mixed-model based genome-wide association analysis, especially for multiple traits ("omics" data).
GenABEL is mentioned in FAO guidelines
Wed, 03/20/2013 - 14:07 — yuriiThe GenABEL suite, while originally designed for the analysis of human genomic data, is also widely used for analysis of animal and plant data.
DatABEL package 0.9-4 is released
Wed, 03/13/2013 - 17:53 — yuriiDatABEL package 0.9-4 is released on CRAN.
GenABEL package 1.7-4 released
Sat, 02/23/2013 - 19:58 — yuriiYesterday, the GenABEL package 1.7-4 was released on CRAN. The release fixes an important bug concerning the GRAMMAR-Gamma
