Echidna Mixed Models Software

Echidna Mixed Models Software (EchidnaMMS) performs statistical analysis by fitting linear mixed models utilising the Average Information algorithm to estimate variance parameters.

Echidna is targeted for use in animal and plant breeding contexts.

Example script slurm-echidna-bdw.sh to run Echidna on 1 node using 2 cores and at most 1 GB of memory:

slurm-echidna-bdw.sh

#!/bin/bash
#SBATCH --job-name=echidna
#SBATCH --output=%x.o%j
#SBATCH --error=%x.e%j
#SBATCH --nodes=1
#SBATCH --ntasks-per-node=1
#SBATCH --cpus-per-task=2
#SBATCH --partition=bdw
#SBATCH --mem=1G
#SBATCH --time=0-00:30:00
#SBATCH --mail-user=<user_email_address>
##SBATCH --mail-type=BEGIN,END
##SBATCH --account=<account>
 
module load echidna
 
MAIL_USER=$(grep '^#SBATCH --mail-user' "$0" | sed -e 's/#SBATCH --mail-user=//')
OMP_NUM_THREADS=${SLURM_CPUS_PER_TASK:-1}
 
export OMP_NUM_THREADS
 
rm -f sped.esk
rm -f sped.eqo
rm -rf sped12
 
echo $MAIL_USER | Echidna sped