[GenABEL-dev] Abstract for the EMGM 2014 conference

[L.C. Karssen]

Dear list,

Please find attached the poster I presented at the European Mathematical
Genetics Society in Cologne over the past two days.


Best,

Lennart.

On 30-01-14 20:28, L.C. Karssen wrote:
> Dear list,
> 
> I'm planning to go to the EMGM (European Mathematical Genetics Meeting)
> in Cologne in April. I'd like to present a poster there and wrote the
> abstract below.
> Please let me know any comments or suggestions as soon possible as the
> deadline for abstract submission is tomorrow (Fri 31 Jan).
> 
> Thank you very much,
> 
> Lennart.
> 
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>   Over the last year the GenABEL project has seen a considerable
>   number of improvements. These improvements do not only consist of
>   updates to the existing packages of the GenABEL suite, but are also
>   manifest in the way the development process is being handled and
>   the way the packages are made available to the users.
> 
>   On our poster we will demonstrate the newly implemented features in
>   the various packages of the GenABEL suite. We also welcome a new
>   member to the GenABEL family: OmicABEL, a package for rapid
>   mixed-model based genome-wide association analysis of multiple
>   traits (think metabolomics, glycomics, etc.).
> 
>   Recently we started using the open source Jenkins Continuous
>   Integration server to help us release software of higher
>   quality. Jenkins is a framework that automatically runs several
>   tests (e.g. static code analysis, checks for memory leaks) for each
>   of our packages. It builds and tests each project after a new commit
>   in our version control system. This allows us to detect problems in
>   the code at an early stage, before they bug the user.
> 
>   After the GenABEL package, ProbABEL is the second package that is
>   available as a Debian package. This means that users of upcoming
>   Debian releases will be able to install ProbABEL with a simple click
>   of a button or a single command. Moreover, since many other Linux
>   distributions like Ubuntu and Linux Mint are derived from Debian,
>   users of these distributions automatically benefit as well.
> 
>   In the coming year more packages are expected to be added the
>   GenABEL suite as well as continued efforts to improve the existing
>   ones. Moreover, we plan to increase both the ease of installation as
>   well as the visibility of the GenABEL suite by adding more packages
>   into both the Debian and Red Hat Enterprise Linux repositories (as
>   well as derivatives like CentOS and Scientific Linux).
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Utrecht
The Netherlands

lennart at karssen.org
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