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PSEUDO -- Program Options

Input Files and Basic Parameters

-f file list
Selects file containing list of data files with family-specific z-score replicates.
-h hypothesis file
Selects hypothesis file with list of affections, lod scores and ranks to test.
-n number of pseudosimuations
Selects the number of pseudosimulations to be run.
-r random seed
Selects a random seed to be used. If none is selected, pseudo will use internal clock time as a random seed. In either case, the seed used will be listed with other parameter settings in the output

Additional options

Analysis Options

--balanced
Sample family replicates evenly when generating pseudosimulations.
--random
Sample family replicates randomly when generating pseudosimulations.
--chrMax
Maximum legal chromosome number to input.

Optional Summaries

These options request generation of additional output.
--peaks
For each unique hypothesis outcome, produce a listing of the maximum lod score on each chromosome for every simulation. Values will be written to file pseudo.peaks.
--simpeaks
For each unique hypothesis outcome, produce a listing of the maximum lod score for every simulation. Values will be written to the file pseudo.simpeaks
--hits
Output a breakdown of hits by affection variable for each hypothesis. Values will be written to file pseudo.hits.

Family Variance Weights

These options control output of summaries related to family variance weights. The procedure for estimating weights and background pertaining to variance estimation for the replicate pool method is presented in the section on variance estimation
--reps
Print a detailed summary of values used to calculate family-specific variance weights, including proportion of hits by replicate for each family/hypothesis and estimated weights for each family/chromosome. Values will be written to file pseudo.reps.
--weights
For each hypothesis, output estimated weights for each family and chromosome. Values will be written to file pseudo.weights.

Output Options

--quiet
Do not output progress reports while performing long simulations.
--prefix:str
Change default prefix for output files to str. For instance, pseudo.pdf will be written to str.pdf
--pdf
For each hypothesis, output lod score distributions, distribution of hits and plots of log10(hits per genome) to pseudo.pdf

Memory Usage

--megabytes:n
Do not attempt to allocate more than n megabytes of memory. Can stop unnecessary crashes on some systems
--diskSpace:n
Do not attempt to any simulation where diskspace required for any one output file exceeds n megabytes. Can stop unnecessary crashes on some systems
--thinData:n
Sample every nth marker when reading in family-specific z-scores.

 
 

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