PERMORY-MPI: a program for high-speed parallel permutation testing in genome-wide association studies

UNLABELLED PERMORY is software for accelerated permutation testing of genome-wide association studies (GWAS). We have parallelized PERMORY using the Message-Passing Interface resulting in a nearly linear speedup. Furthermore, we added accelerated analysis of GWAS using quantitative phenotypes, and an accurate estimation of the effective number of independent tests. AVAILABILITY AND IMPLEMENTATION Free download from http://permory.org.

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