skater: An R package for SNP-based Kinship Analysis, Testing, and Evaluation

Motivation SNP-based kinship analysis with genome-wide relationship estimation and IBD segment analysis methods produces results that often require further downstream processing and manipulation. A dedicated software package that consistently and intuitively implements this analysis functionality is needed. Results Here we present the skater R package for S NP-based k inship a nalysis, t esting, and e valuation with R . The skater package contains a suite of well-documented tools for importing, parsing, and analyzing pedigree data, performing relationship degree inference, benchmarking relationship degree classification, and summarizing IBD segment data. Availability The skater package is implemented as an R package and is released under the MIT license at https://github.com/signaturescience/skater . Documentation is available at https://signaturescience.github.io/skater .