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Accessing PLINK from Python

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Hi I'm using ActivePython 2.5 on Mac OS X. I would like to know if there is a way to call PLINK--the Genome Wide Association software-- from Python
Apr 15 '08 #1
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From what I can tell, PLink is a standalone module so you could run it using subprocess, and send/receive data from it. Here is a link to Doug Hellman's subprocess tutorial http://blog.doughellmann.com/2007/07/pymotw-subprocess.html I doubt that there are Python bindings.
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