[GenABEL-dev] Abstract for the EMGM 2014 conference

[Yury Aulchenko]

European Math Genet MEETING :)

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> On 02 Apr 2014, at 17:45, "L.C. Karssen" <lennart at karssen.org> wrote:
> 
> 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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