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ColocBoost on the media

  • April 20, 2025: Manuscript describing ColocBoost methods with applications is posted on medRxiv.
  • May 2, 2025: colocboost R package is available on CRAN.

Software updates

  • v1.0.7 (Important update) Improvements to ColocBoost (check out the full details in PR and PR).
    • Enhanced colocboost main function with post-filtering and only keep the robust colocalization events.
    • Enhanced colocboost_plot function with flexible highlighting options and new visualization styles.
    • Optimized performance and computational efficiency
    • Improved documentation and examples for the wrapper pipeline
    • Minor bug fixes for increased stability
  • v1.0.6 Memory optimization and visualization improvements with bug fixes CRAN.
    • Optimized LD-free version to reduce memory usage by eliminating large identity LD matrix generation
    • Enhanced colocboost_plot function with improved horizontal and vertical spacing labels
    • Resolved minor bugs for improved stability For detailed changelog, see PR.
  • v1.0.4 Initial public stable release on CRAN. Due to the file size limitation of CRAN release, all example data are the subset of the simulated data. See full dataset in colocboost paper repo.
  • v1.0.0 Initial public release. Pre-release versions 0.1.* for reproducing our earlier work, including the first version of manuscript on medRxiv, are still available on GitHub.