Version 0.1.0

This is the first release of Forward 👏

In the docs, Forward is presented as having three customizable components: genotype containers, phenotype containers and tasks. In this first release, the following implementations are provided:

Phenotype containers

• ExcelPhenotypeDatabase
• CSVPhenotypeDatabase

Genotype containers

• MemoryImpute2Geno (impute2 files, uses RAM)
• PlinkGenotypeDatabase (plink binary files)

Tasks

• LogisticTest (logistic regression, discrete outcome)
• LinearTest (linear regression, continuous outcome)
• SKATTest (SNP sets, rare and common variants, results for this test are not included in the generated report).

This release also comes with a command-line utility (forward-cli) that is automatically installed when using pip. Finally, a first iteration of the web-based, interactive report is also provided.