====== BALD software home page ======

===== Overview =====

  * **Title**: Blockwise Approach using Linkage Disequilibrium information
  * **Language**: ''R''
  * **Description**: Functions for the Genome-Wide Association Studies including simulation of SNPs data, constrained hierarchical clustering using Linkage Disequilibrium (LD) measures, the Gap statistic to find the optimal number of clusters, and statistical regression models for SNP selection (Univariate, Lasso, Group Lasso, Elastic-Net).
  * **Authors**:  [[members:adehman:welcome|Alia Dehman]] and [[members:pneuvial:welcome|Pierre Neuvial]]
  * **Maintainer**: [[members:adehman:welcome|Alia Dehman]]
  * **Availability**: Download {{:logiciels:bald_0.2.1.tar.gz|BALD}} v0.2.1.
  * **References**: Dehman, A., Ambroise, C., & Neuvial, P. (2015). Performance of a blockwise approach in variable selection using linkage disequilibrium information. //BMC bioinformatics//, 16(1), 148.

The constrained hierarchical clustering approach implemented in
**BALD is now available in a dedicated package called adjclust** and
available from CRAN: https://cloud.r-project.org/package=adjclust