Bioinformatics Advance Access originally published online on December 5, 2006
Bioinformatics 2007 23(2):252-254; doi:10.1093/bioinformatics/btl574
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LdCompare: rapid computation of single- and multiple-marker r2 and genetic coverage
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Algorithm and Data Analysis, Affymetrix Inc. 3420 Central Expressway, Santa Clara, California, USA
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Summary: The scale of genetic-variation datasets has increased enormously and the linkage equilibrium (LD) structure of these polymorphisms, particularly in whole-genome association studies, is of great interest. The significant computational complexity of calculating single- and multiple-marker correlations at a genome-wide scale remains challenging. We have developed a program that efficiently characterizes whole-genome LD structure on large number of SNPs in terms of single- and multiple-marker correlations.
Availability: LdCompare is licensed under the GNU General Public License (GPL). Source code, documentation, testing datasets and precompiled executables are available for download at: http://www.affymetrix.com/support/developer/tools/devnettools.affx
Contact: ke_hao{at}affymetrix.com
The authors wish it to be known that, in their opinion, the first three authors should be regarded as joint First Authors
Associate Editor: Martin Bishop
Received on September 21, 2006; revised on November 10, 2006; accepted on November 11, 2006