[GenABEL-dev] Abstract for the EMGM 2014 conference

[Yury Aulchenko]

I like 3 and then 2 (given what you say in next email)

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> On 30 Jan 2014, at 20:39, "L.C. Karssen" <lennart at karssen.org> wrote:
> 
> Good point! :-)
> I've got several options:
> 
> 1) The State of the GenABEL Project
> 
> 2) The GenABEL project: improvements and additions
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> 3) New software and developments in the GenABEL project
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> 4) GenABEL: implementing statistical genetics in software
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> 
> Any other suggestions?
> I'm a bit concerned that it may be too software-developement oriented
> for a statistical genetics meeting. We'll see
> 
> 
>> On 30-01-14 20:31, Yury Aulchenko wrote:
>> What is the title?
>> 
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>>> On 30 Jan 2014, at 20:28, "L.C. Karssen" <lennart at karssen.org> 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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>>> L.C. Karssen
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>>> lennart at karssen.org
>>> http://blog.karssen.org
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> L.C. Karssen
> Utrecht
> The Netherlands
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> lennart at karssen.org
> http://blog.karssen.org
> GPG key ID: A88F554A
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