This is the first release of Forward 👏
In the docs, Forward is presented as having three customizable components: genotype containers, phenotype containers and tasks. In this first release, the following implementations are provided:
Phenotype containers
- ExcelPhenotypeDatabase
- CSVPhenotypeDatabase
Genotype containers
- MemoryImpute2Geno (impute2 files, uses RAM)
- PlinkGenotypeDatabase (plink binary files)
Tasks
- LogisticTest (logistic regression, discrete outcome)
- LinearTest (linear regression, continuous outcome)
- SKATTest (SNP sets, rare and common variants, results for this test are not included in the generated report).
This release also comes with a command-line utility (forward-cli) that is automatically installed when using pip. Finally, a first iteration of the web-based, interactive report is also provided.