Accessing PLINK from Python

[paafio]

Hi I'm using ActivePython 2.5 on Mac OS X. I would like to know if there is a way to call PLINK--the Genome Wide Association software-- from Python

[woooee]

From what I can tell, PLink is a standalone module so you could run it using subprocess, and send/receive data from it. Here is a link to Doug Hellman's subprocess tutorial http://blog.doughellma nn.com/2007/07/pymotw-subprocess.html I doubt that there are Python bindings.