Abstract

Background

Genome-wide association studies (GWAS) are a powerful method to detect associations between variants and phenotypes. A GWAS requires several complex computations with large data sets, and many steps may need to be repeated with varying parameters. Manual running of these analyses can be tedious, error-prone and hard to reproduce.

Results

The H3AGWAS workflow from the Pan-African Bioinformatics Network for H3Africa is a powerful, scalable and portable workflow implementing pre-association analysis, implementation of various association testing methods and post-association analysis of results.

Conclusions

The workflow is scalable—laptop to cluster to cloud (e.g., SLURM, AWS Batch, Azure). All required software is containerised and can run under Docker or Singularity.

Details

Title
H3AGWAS: a portable workflow for genome wide association studies
Author
Brandenburg, Jean-Tristan; Clark, Lindsay; Botha, Gerrit; Panji, Sumir; Baichoo, Shakuntala; Fields, Christopher; Hazelhurst, Scott
Pages
1-15
Section
Software
Publication year
2022
Publication date
2022
Publisher
BioMed Central
e-ISSN
14712105
Source type
Scholarly Journal
Language of publication
English
ProQuest document ID
2737655820
Copyright
© 2022. This work is licensed under http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ (the “License”). Notwithstanding the ProQuest Terms and Conditions, you may use this content in accordance with the terms of the License.