osobh/plink repository overview

What is Plink? PLINK is a free, open-source whole genome association analysis toolset, designed to perform a range of basic, large-scale analyses in a computationally efficient manner.

The focus of PLINK is purely on analysis of genotype/phenotype data, so there is no support for steps prior to this (e.g. study design and planning, generating genotype or CNV calls from raw data). Through integration with gPLINK and Haploview, there is some support for the subsequent visualization, annotation and storage of results.

PLINK (one syllable) is being developed by Shaun Purcell at the Center for Human Genetic Research (CHGR), Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH), and the Broad Institute of Harvard & MIT, with the support of others.

Why is there 2 plink versions? Plink 1.07 is the latest version of plink released in 2009 by the Broad Institute. Plink 2 is a complete rewrite of Plink v1, done by Christopher Chang (China). Currently in beta, the latest release is v1.90.

Is this the official repository for Plink source code? NO. This repository holds a copy of the latest debian stable release of Plink v1.07.