Computing

We will run some programs, to do things like simulating genes on pedigrees, computing kinship coefficients, etc.

To make it so only one copy of programs need to be maintained, I am putting software on hilbert.ms.washington.edu. All students registered for Stat578C can get an ms account. Programs are in C. You will not have to write your own programs, but if you know a little bit of C you will find it easier. We will use Makefiles to run things; if you know a little bit about Makefiles you can teach the other members of the class.

We are going to use the MORGAN_V1.1 infrastructure to run programs. THIS IS NOT IDEAL. MORGAN is our package developed under our NIH grant; it does Monte Carlo Genetic Analyses. Version 1.1 is NOT user-friendly, and is currently a mess. However, it is the version I know how to tweak to get it to do the sort of things we want to do.

If you do not have an ms account, please get one:
rlogin to hilbert.ms.washington.edu with

You will be prompted for a username of your choice, new password etc.
In case of difficulties, please send email to help@ms.washington.edu.

Before October 22, please get your account set up, and run the basic tests described in computing set-up