[GenABEL-dev] publishing review tutorials?

[Nicola Pirastu]

I think its a great idea, let me know if I can help in any way, I have some
experience in GWAS and metanalisys and a bit on Case Control studies,
although I don't think I could write a paper by myself.

Nicola

2011/7/13 Yurii Aulchenko <yurii.aulchenko at gmail.com>

> Dear All,
>
> I would like to bring up a very interesting (this is how it appears to
> me) issue initiated by MarcinK in a private talk.
>
> We did quite some methodology work on documentation, tutorials, forum,
> and this list. I presume we all agree that it would be great to get
> some more credit for that. So why not transforming out efforts into
> publications? The idea is that using GenABEL tutorials as the base we
> can write a series of "review tutorials" (say, the tutorial part based
> on the "GenABEL tutorial", and the review part based on
> forum/JournalClub/individualExperience). For example, Marcin is
> willing and ready to come up with a "review tutorial" on GWA analysis
> in highly stratified populations; Maria is deep into the topic of GWA
> data Quality Control [Maria, would you be willing to work on such
> manuscript?]; also meta-analysis of GWA studies seems well-covered in
> the "GenABEL tutorial" [would one volunteer to write this?]; not to
> mention mixed models which are among my favorites. Any other topics
> are more than welcome.
>
> Would you approve this idea? -- in which case I will approach some
> journals with pre-submission inquiry (draft attached after the
> signature).
>
> Please do comment on this idea.
>
> best wishes,
> Yurii
>
>  ------------------
> Dear Sir or Madam,
>
> We would like to make a preliminary request on the possibility to
> publish a series of publications on genome-wide association (GWA)
> studies in the format of "review tutorials" in *theJournalToAsk*. This
> is somewhat new format, in which we aim to both providing theoretical
> review of the subject and hands-on tutorial allowing technical
> implementation. Our feeling is that this type of publications can be
> very beneficial to the scientific community -- not only the general
> insight and guidelines will be provided, but also technical details of
> possible implementation will be given.
>
> The topics we have in mind include
>
> * Quality control for GWA studies
> * GWA analysis of stratified population and dealing with population
> stratification
> * Meta-analysis of GWA studies
> * Use of variance components models in GWA studies
>
> Would *theJournalToAsk* be interested in publishing a series of such
> "review tutorials"?
>
> with best wishes,
> on behalf of the GenABEL project,
> Yurii Auchenko
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