KING

Description

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KING is a toolset making use of high-throughput SNP data typically seen in a genome-wide association study (GWAS) or a sequencing project. Applications of KING include family relationship inference and pedigree error checking, population substructure identification, forensics, gene mapping, etc.

Environment Modules

Run module spider king to find out what environment modules are available for this application.

Environment Variables

• HPC_KING_DIR - installation directory

Citation

If you publish research that uses king you have to cite it as follows:

Manichaikul, A., Mychaleckyj, J. C., Rich, S. S., Daly, K., Sale, M., & Chen, W. M. (2010). Robust relationship inference in genome-wide association studies. Bioinformatics, 26(22), 2867–2873. https://doi.org/10.1093/bioinformatics/btq559

Categories

biology, genomics