PreMeta

PreMeta is a tool to reformat output files of summary statistics of the following software tools: RAREMETAL, MetaSKAT, seqMeta, and MASS to allow the output of any of the other four tools as input.

Topic

Metagenomics;Quantitative genetics;Statistics and probability

Detail

  • Operation: Statistical modelling

  • Software interface: Command-line user interface

  • Language: C++

  • License: GNU General Public License v3

  • Cost: Free

  • Version name: -

  • Credit: The National Institutes of Health (NIH), NIH Health Building Interdisciplinary Research Careers in Women’s Health (BIRCWH) award.

  • Input: Script file containing a block of keywords and values

  • Output: .MSSD and .MInfo files, .Rdata file containing a R object that can be read by seqMeta for meta-analysis

  • Contact: Zheng-Zheng Tang z.tang@vanderbilt.edu

  • Collection: -

  • Maturity: -

Publications

  • PreMeta: a tool to facilitate meta-analysis of rare-variant associations.
  • Tang ZZ, Bunn P, Tao R, Liu Z, Lin DY. PreMeta: a tool to facilitate meta-analysis of rare-variant associations. BMC Genomics. 2017 Feb 14;18(1):160. doi: 10.1186/s12864-017-3573-1. PMID: 28196472; PMCID: PMC5310051.
  • https://doi.org/10.1186/s12864-017-3573-1
  • PMID: 28196472
  • PMC: PMC5310051

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