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Re: [PATCH] gnu: Add eigensoft.
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Ricardo Wurmus |
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Re: [PATCH] gnu: Add eigensoft. |
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Thu, 14 Jul 2016 07:40:53 +0200 |
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Ludovic Courtès <address@hidden> writes:
> Ricardo Wurmus <address@hidden> skribis:
>
>> * gnu/packages/bioinformatics.scm (eigensoft): New variable.
>
> LGTM.
>
>> Here’s an alternative description, which is a little more general and
>> doesn’t emphasise EIGENSTRAT so much:
>>
>> The EIGENSOFT package provides tools for population genetics and
>> stratification correction. EIGENSOFT implements methods commonly used
>> in population genetics analyses such as PCA, computation of
>> Tracy-Widom statistics, and finding relateds in structured
> ^
> Typo.
It’s rather a jargon “neologism”; “related” is supposed to be a noun and
“relateds” is the plural. I’ll replace it with “related individuals”.
>> populations. It comes with a built-in plotting script and supports
>> multiple file formats and quantitative phenotypes.
>
> This one is probably better, yes.
Okay. Thanks for checking!
~~ Ricardo