Gavin Band's webspace

Welcome to my webspace at the Wellcome Trust Centre For Human Genetics.

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Software etc.:

• The Multiple Sclerosis GWAS Browser.

• qctool is a package for quality control of gwas datasets.

• See a specification for the binary GEN file format used by qctool. This format is a binarisation of the GEN file format used by the gwas software maintained by Jonathan Marchini and others, but supports per-SNP compression. This allows for fast seeking of individual SNPs, with small file sizes.