/ISCB-MSSM-Group2

Code for the 2015-16 ISCB class offered by MSSM and JAX-Center for Genome Dynamics

Primary LanguageRGNU General Public License v3.0GPL-3.0

ISCB-MSSM-Group2

Repository for the MSSM Independent Studies Computational Biology class, in conjunction with the Center for Genome Dynamics at the Jackson Laboratory.

Many thanks to:

  • Dr. Gary Churchill, Ph.D.

  • Ms. Sue McClatchy, M.S.

  • Mrs. Deb McGann

Some code contained herein is written by either Sue or Dr. Churchill and is commented as such. That code is provided without an explicit license, though was provided to us for the express purpose of use in this project. All other code is licensed under the GNU General Public License 3.0.

Code Contributors

  • Justin Hamilton

  • Brian McGrath

  • Jospeh Quigley

  • Sue McClatchy

  • Gary Churchill

Contributions are mostly limited to group members and instructors, though if you see a bug, feel free to submit a pull request!

Purpose

This code is used in conjunction with our research project, Sirt1 and the Glucagon Signaling Pathway that studies the effects of Glucagon on diabetes in mice with the help of of the BTBR dataset provided by the Alan D. Attie laboratory at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Technology

R is the coding language used for analysis, with the following libraries:

  • R/qtl

  • ggplot2

The following libraries are optional and are used for code testing:

  • lintr

Additionally, we used git for version control.