GWASelect 1.0 – Variable Selection Method for Genomewide Association Studies

GWASelect 1.0

:: DESCRIPTION

GWASelect implements a novel variable selection method for GWAS (Genomewide Association Studies) data and is able to handle more than half million SNPs.

::DEVELOPER

Danyu Lin

:: SCREENSHOTS

N/A

::REQUIREMENTS

  • Linux

:: DOWNLOAD

 GWASelect

:: MORE INFORMATION

Citation

Q. He and D.Y. Lin.
A variable selection method for genome-wide association studies.
Bioinformatics (2010)doi: 10.1093/bioinformatics/btq600

netVar – Using Gene Co-Expression Networks for Variable Selection

netVar

:: DESCRIPTION

netVar is a network-based method that uses the gene connectivity in the gene co-expression network for variable selection.

::DEVELOPER

the Liu Lab , The UT Health Science Center at Houston.

:: SCREENSHOTS

N/A

:: REQUIREMENTS

  • Linux/ MacOsX /  Windows
  • MatLab

:: DOWNLOAD

 netVar 

:: MORE INFORMATION

Citation

BMC Bioinformatics. 2014 May 20;15(1):153.
Improving the sensitivity of sample clustering by leveraging gene co-expression networks in variable selection.
Wang Z, Lucas FA, Qiu P, Liu Y.

gboosting 1.0.1 – High-dimensional Variable Selection

gboosting 1.0.1

:: DESCRIPTION

gboosting is an R package for conducting GWAS with survival outcomes using Boosting and FDR control methods

::DEVELOPER

Big-data Evaluation and Statistics Team (BEST)

:: SCREENSHOTS

N/A

:: REQUIREMENTS

  • Windows / MacOsX / Linux
  • R

:: DOWNLOAD

 gboosting

:: MORE INFORMATION

Citation:

Component-wise gradient boosting and false discovery control in survival analysis with high-dimensional covariates.
He K, Li Y, Zhu J, Liu H, Lee JE, Amos CI, Hyslop T, Jin J, Lin H, Wei Q, Li Y.
Bioinformatics. 2015 Sep 17. pii: btv517.