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LargeQvalue: A Program for Calculating FDR Estimates with Large Datasets

Andrew Anand Brown
doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/010074
Andrew Anand Brown
*Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Hinxton, Cambridge, CB10 1HH, UK
†NORMENT, KG Jebsen Centre for Psychosis Research, Institute of Clinical Medicine, University of Oslo, Norway
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This is an implementation of the R statistical software qvalue package [Dabney et al., 2014], designed for use with large datasets where memory or computation time is limiting. In addition to estimating p values adjusted for multiple testing, the software outputs a script which can be pasted into R to produce diagnostic plots and report parameter estimates. This program runs almost 30 times faster and requests substantially less memory than the qvalue package when analysing 10 million p values on a high performance cluster. The software has been used to control for the multiple testing of 390 million tests when analysing a full cis scan of RNA-seq exon level gene expression from the Eurobats project [Brown et al., 2014]. The source code and links to executable files for linux and Mac OSX can be found here: https://github.com/abrown25/qvalue. Help for the package can be found by running ./largeQvalue --help.

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