GWASinspector: Comprehensive, efficient and easy to use quality control of genome-wide association study results

Tools for (automated and manual) quality control of the results of Genome Wide Association Studies

Description

When evaluating the results of a genome-wide association study (GWAS), it is important to perform a quality control to ensure that the results are valid, complete, correctly formatted, and, in case of meta-analysis, consistent with other studies that have applied the same analysis. This package was developed to facilitate and streamline this process and provide the user with a comprehensive report.

Detailed instructions on how to use the package can be found in the manual.

Installation

Our package is now available from CRAN repository. You can simply run the below command in R to get the latest version.

Allele frequency standard references

• HapMap rds sqlite(gzipped)
• 1000Genome study (EUR super-population) sqlite(gzipped)

Effect-size references

• SDNN rds file
• RMSSD rds file
• HF rds file

Requirements

R 3.2 or higher

License

GWASinspector is licensed under the GNU General Public License, version 3.

Copyright

Copyright © 2020 by Alireza Ani.

Disclaimer: We hope that GWASinspector will be of significant help in future researches, however, it is published WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY.