P-LINK(1)

📦 version 1.07, in debian bookworm, debian trixie, ubuntu jammy, ubuntu noble, ubuntu resolute, ubuntu stonking

okay bestie, so this is the manual page for p-link, living in section 1 of the general commands manual. buckle up, it's a whole genome situation 🌸

✨ NAME ✨

plink, p-link, plink1 — whole genome SNP analysis, aka the vibe check your DNA has been waiting for 🧬💅

🌈 SYNOPSIS 🌈

plink --help

that's it. that's the whole synopsis. slay.

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

okay so first things first, because this is IMPORTANT and not me being dramatic:

this binary got renamed from plink to p-link / plink1 because there's a name clash 😭 between this plink and a part of the ssh clone called putty. two completely different things fighting over one name, it's giving main character energy collision fr fr. if you wanna know more about that whole situation, please go read /usr/share/doc/plink/README.Debian — it explains everything, no cap 📖✨

so what does plink actually do, you ask? 💖

it works on SNP datasets that have already been pre-analysed for their reliability and their calling to AA, BB or AB. so like, the hard part's already done before it even shows up — it's not out here doing the raw analysis, it's the second act, the glow-up phase 🌟

and then it goes off and:

  • finds associations with a disease of single SNPs or pairs 🔥
  • determines haplotype blocks 🧩
  • retrieves information on SNPs from an online repository 🌐

obsessed. it's literally doing three whole jobs and looking good doing it 👑

🫶 real talk though: this manual page is insufficient. like, genuinely. the author said so themselves. do NOT come for me, come for the actual docs.

what you should do instead:

  1. use the help option for a quick reminder of the options of p-link — it's the little refresher bestie, the sparknotes
  2. go to the home page for the online documentation
  3. or grab the downloadable manual if you like having things saved offline, respect

💜 SEE ALSO 💜

http://pngu.mgh.harvard.edu/~purcell/plink

go. click. it's the source of truth, iykyk ✨

🎀 AUTHOR 🎀

plink was written by Shaun Purcell <plink@chgr.mgh.harvard.edu> — the icon, the legend, the moment 🏆

this manual page was written by Steffen Moeller <moeller@debian.org>, for the Debian project (but may be used by others — so like, share the love, it's not gatekept 🫶).

and that's the whole thing! this page is dated April 8, 2008 and belongs to the P-LINK(1) family, section 1, general commands manual. thank you for coming to my ted talk, mwah 💋

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