Lapstruct

Record added by Jurg Ott (the original Rockefeller list)

LAPlacian eigenfunctions learn population STRUCTure

LAPSTRUCT is a free program to describe population structure using biomarker data ( typically SNPs, CNVs etc.) available in a population sample. The main features different from PCA are: (1)geometrically motivated and graphic model based; (2)robustness of outliers.

• Jun Zhang
• P Niyogi
• MS McPeek

http://galton.uchicago.edu/~junzhang/LAPSTRUCT.html

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Zhang, Niyogi, McPeek (2009), “Laplacian eigenfunctions learn population structure”, PLoS ONE, 4(12):e7928.