LODSCORE(1)

📦 version 4.1P-fix100, in debian bookworm, debian trixie, ubuntu jammy, ubuntu noble, ubuntu questing, ubuntu resolute, ubuntu stonking

💅 lodscore — the manual page, but make it make sense 💅

okay bestie, gather round, we're reading the lodscore manual page (that's section 1 of the General Commands Manual, if you're keeping score 🎀) and honestly? it's a whole journey.

✨ NAME ✨

lodscore — compares likelihoods at locally optimal theta 🧬

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

lodscore [options] ipedfile.dat pedfile.dat

like, two files, both ending in .dat, one of them is literally called ipedfile.dat. no notes. 💀

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

so this manual page documents the lodscore command briefly, and ngl, the original author is fully out here admitting it's a very raw attempt at a manpage — it exists because the Debian GNU/Linux distribution requires each program to have a manpage. 😭 if you're feeling generous and want to enhance it, any enhancement would be greatly appreciated. (fr fr. they said that.)

lodscore is part of the fastlink software package ✨

here's the actual tea though, and it's good tea 🍵:

lodscore compares -2log(likelihood) at the locally optimal theta to -2log(likelihood) at a theta that is 1/2 in every component — meaning every locus is unlinked to all the rest. iconic comparison, no cap.

meanwhile, over in LINKAGE / ILINK, more likelihood function evaluations get done after the last printed iteration line 👀 but those likelihood function evaluations are unnecessary — see paper2.ps from the fastlink-doc Debian package for more details. so many wasted evaluations, it's giving doing homework nobody assigned. 🙈

🎀 OPTIONS 🎀

there might be options. the author did not find any information about them. bestie, that's the whole section. 💀
  • unknown options — there might be options, but no information about them was found. please forward any information about them to <tille@debian.org> 🫶

👑 SEE ALSO 👑

🌈 Word-Wide-Web 🌈

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/CBBResearch/Schaffer/fastlink.html

💖 AUTHOR: 💖

Alejandro Schaeffer <schaffer@helix.nih.gov> and others 🌟

this manual page was written by Andreas Tille <tille@debian.org>, for the Debian GNU/Linux system — but it may be used by others 💜 (sharing is caring, periodt).

April 15, 2003 — that's the date stamped on this page, and the whole thing lives in the General Commands Manual, written for the Debian GNU/Linux system. 🎀 bye bestie, go compute a lod score or something 🦋💅

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