sPLINK

sPLINK

sPLINK (safe PLINK) allows the federated, privacy-preserving analysis of GWAS data. It works on distributed datasets without exchanging raw data and is robust against imbalanced phenotype distributions across cohorts. Federated and user-friendly analysis with sPLINK, thus, has the potential to replace meta-analysis as the gold standard for collaborative GWAS. The tool is available online [here](https://www.exbio.wzw.tum.de/splink/).

sPLINK: federated GWAS approach beats meta-analysis

A preprint of the paper regarding the sPLINK tool (privacy-preserving tool for GWAS) is now available on *bioRxiv*.