LocusZoom Standalone

This page contains information regarding a version of LocusZoom that may be downloaded for personal use. For more information on LocusZoom, see this page.

Requirements

LocusZoom standalone requires the following:

• Python 2.6 (do not download the 3.0 branch!)
• R 2.10+
• new_fugue, a program for computing LD, written by Goncalo Abecasis.

Currently only Unix/Linux is supported, though Mac OS X should be supported in a future release.

Synopsis

A quick example

First, change directory into examples/. Then, run the following command:

./run_example.py

This script runs the following command for you:

../bin/locuszoom --metal Kathiresan_2009_HDL.txt --refgene FADS1

A PDF plot of the FADS1 locus will be created in the directory. Voila, your first region plot!