Starting up with PLINK

Question

[Rakan]

Hi everyone,

I would really appreciated if any one would help me with this. I want to load my data in Excel file into PLINK , I Know I have to converted to other format so that PLINK will be able to read . I tried to save it as txt but it did not seem to work. I'm using Mac osx. Also, If any one can recommend me a good practical guide/tutorial on how to use PLINK , I would really appreciated.

I really apologize for my stupid question but I really need help to start with PLINK.

[GouthamAtla]

"I want to load my data in Excel file into PLINK". What kind of data you have in excel ?

[Rakan]

My goal to create PED.file I followed the instruction on PLINK site. I entered my data(below) in Excel but some reason I'm not able to import the file into PLINK?

Family ID    Individual ID   Paternal ID  Maternal ID  Phenotype  SNP

[alesssia]

How does the text file (first couple of lines!) you saved from Excel look like?

If any one can recommend me a good practical guide/tutorial on how to use PLINK

http://pngu.mgh.harvard.edu/~purcell/plink/ and https://www.cog-genomics.org/plink2/general_usage (the latter to fully exploit the novelties introduced in the new version).