ASAFE

ASAFE (Ancestry Specific Allele Frequency Estimation) is a software tool to estimate a distinct ancestry's specific bi-allelic marker frequency. The ASAFE algorithm uses the Expectation-maximization algorithm (EM) for the estimations.

Topic

GWAS study;Population genetics

Detail

Operation: Genetic variation analysis
Software interface: Command-line user interface;Library
Language: R
License: Artistic-2.0
Cost: Free
Version name: 1.22.0
Credit: National Institutes of Health (NIH), USA, The Genetic Analysis Center at the University of Washington supported by NHLBI and NIDCR.
Input: -
Output: -
Contact: Qian S. Zhang qszhang@uw.edu
Collection: -
Maturity: Stable

Publications

ASAFE: ancestry-specific allele frequency estimation.
Zhang QS, Browning BL, Browning SR. ASAFE: ancestry-specific allele frequency estimation. Bioinformatics. 2016 Jul 15;32(14):2227-9. doi: 10.1093/bioinformatics/btw220. Epub 2016 May 3. PMID: 27153656; PMCID: PMC4937201.
https://doi.org/10.1093/bioinformatics/btw220
PMID: 27153656
PMC: PMC4937201

Download and documentation

Source: http://bioconductor.org/packages/release/bioc/src/contrib/ASAFE_1.22.0.tar.gz
Documentation: http://bioconductor.org/packages/release/bioc/manuals/ASAFE/man/ASAFE.pdf
Home page: http://bioconductor.org/packages/release/bioc/html/ASAFE.html
Links: http://bioconductor.org/packages/release/bioc/vignettes/ASAFE/inst/doc/ASAFE.pdf

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