METAL: fast and efficient meta-analysis of genomewide association scans.
Willer, Cristen J. 1; Li, Yun 1,2; Abecasis, Goncalo R. 1,*
[Miscellaneous] Bioinformatics. 26(17):2190-2191, September 1, 2010.

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Summary: METAL provides a computationally efficient tool for meta-analysis of genome-wide association scans, which is a commonly used approach for improving power complex traits gene mapping studies. METAL provides a rich scripting interface and implements efficient memory management to allow analyses of very large data sets and to support a variety of input file formats.

Availability and implementation: METAL, including source code, documentation, examples, and executables, is available at http://www.sph.umich.edu/csg/abecasis/metal/

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