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Published on: August 21, 2016
METAL: fast and efficient meta-analysis of genomewide association scans
Cristen J Willer1, Yun Li, Gonçalo R Abecasis
1Department of Biostatistics, University of Michigan, 1420 Washington Heights, Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109, USA.
Summary:
METAL provides a computationally efficient tool for meta-analysis of genome-wide association scans, which is a commonly used approach for improving power complex traits gene mapping studies. METAL provides a rich scripting interface and implements efficient memory management to allow analyses of very large data sets and to support a variety of input file formats.
Availability And Implementation:
METAL, including source code, documentation, examples, and executables, is available at http://www.sph.umich.edu/csg/abecasis/metal/.
