PEACE

The current version of PEACE is 0.96, released June 30 2011. The most significant enhancement is the introduction of EAST assembler. PEACE GUI also supports running EAST jobs in addition to providing a streamlined pipeline for running PEACE+EAST. The complete system is freely distributed under the GNU General Public License (Version 3). Refer to the license page for details on the license.

Publications & Related Materials

D. M. Rao, A Parallel Framework for Ab Initio Transcript-Clustering, International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE'18), Gothenburg, Sweden, 2018. Download »
D. M. Rao, J. C. Moler, M. Ozden, Y. Zhang, C. Liang, and J. E. Karro, PEACE: Parallel Environment for Assembly and Clustering of Gene Expression, Nucleic Acids Research, 2010, (doi: 10.1093/nar/gkq470). Download »

Guides & Videos

The user guide and manual for PEACE can be obtained by clicking on the following link: User Guide & Manual. This comprehensive document provides a detailed description of using both the GUI version of PEACE and the textual (non-GUI) version of PEACE. In addition, it also enumerates the software tools required to install and run PEACE.

The welcome screen and quick start guide that is displayed the first time PEACE is run is available via the following link: Quick Start Guide. In PEACE, you may view the quick start guide by clicking the corresponding tool bar button. In PEACE, you may click on the hyperlinks or icons in the quick start guide to launch the various wizards that will further guide you through the different steps.

Video Tutorials

The following videos provide a multi-media demonstration of performing the core tasks of working with PEACE GUI. You may either download the videos (some of them are reasonably large) to your machine and view them. For convenience, the same videos may also be viewed off YouTube.com via the corresponding links.

This video demonstrates the process of adding a new data set to a workspace in PEACE GUI: Add dataset (on YouTube). Optionally, Download this video
This video demonstrates the process of adding a new server to a workspace in PEACE GUI: Add new server (on YouTube). Optionally, Download this video
This video demonstrates the process of launching a new clustering job on a server: Start job (on YouTube). Optionally, Download this video
This video demonstrates the process of working with the cluster summary graph and reating virtual database classifiers: Classifying clusters. Optionally, Download this video

Licence

PEACE is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License (GPL) as published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 (GPL v3), or (at your option) a later version. See: https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-3.0.en.html

PEACE is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the IMPLIED WARRANTY of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.

Miami University, PC2Lab, and the PEACE development team make no representations or warranties about the suitability of the software, either express or implied, including but not limited to the implied warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, or non-infringement. Miami University and its affiliates shall not be liable for any damages suffered by the licensee as a result of using, modifying, or distributing this software or its derivatives.

By using or copying this Software, Licensee agree to abide by the intellectual property laws, and all other applicable laws of the U.S., and the terms of the GNU General Public License (version 3). You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with PEACE. If not, you may download copies of GPL V3 from https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-3.0.en.html.

Downloads

Latest release of PEACE

The latest public release of PEACE can be downloaded via: Download PEACE ».