title: PBEAM: a parallel implementation of BEAM for genome-wide inference of epistatic interactions.
abstract: The software tool PBEAM provides a parallel implementation of the BEAM, which is the first algorithm for large scale epistatic interaction mapping, including genome-wide studies with hundreds of thousands of markers. BEAM describes markers and their interactions with a Bayesian partitioning model and computes the posterior probability of each marker sets via Markov Chain Monte Carlo (MCMC). PBEAM takes the advantage of simulating multiple Markov chains simultaneously. This design can efficiently reduce ~n-fold execution time in the circumstance of n CPUs. The implementation of PBEAM is based on MPI libraries.
  
  
  BACKGROUND
  PBEAM is available for download at http://bioinfo.au.tsinghua.edu.cn/pbeam/
authors.affiliation: MOE Key Laboratory of Bioinformatics and Bioinformatics Division, TNLIST / Department of Automation, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China.
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authors.lastname: Peng
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authors.lastname: Du
authors.forename: Yanda
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authors.lastname: Li
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