GSbench: Benchmarking Genomic Selection and Machine-Learning Prediction Models

A unified interface to fit, cross-validate and benchmark genomic prediction models from SNP marker data. It implements genomic best linear unbiased prediction (GBLUP) and ridge-regression BLUP in base R, and offers a common interface to machine-learning predictors (elastic net, random forest and gradient boosting) through optional packages, together with a stacked ensemble. Cross-validation uses breeding-relevant schemes and reports prediction accuracy honestly, so models can be compared fairly. The genomic relationship matrix follows VanRaden (2008) <doi:10.3168/jds.2007-0980>; the mixed-model solver follows Endelman (2011) <doi:10.3835/plantgenome2011.08.0024>; the genomic-selection framework follows Meuwissen, Hayes and Goddard (2001) <doi:10.1093/genetics/157.4.1819>.

Version: 0.1.0
Depends: R (≥ 4.1.0)
Imports: graphics, stats, withr
Suggests: rrBLUP, glmnet, ranger, xgboost, testthat (≥ 3.0.0), knitr, rmarkdown, spelling
Published: 2026-06-30
DOI: 10.32614/CRAN.package.GSbench (may not be active yet)
Author: Muhammad Farooqi [aut, cre]
Maintainer: Muhammad Farooqi <mqfarooqi at gmail.com>
BugReports: https://github.com/mqfarooqi1/GSbench/issues
License: MIT + file LICENSE
URL: https://github.com/mqfarooqi1/GSbench
NeedsCompilation: no
Language: en-GB
Materials: README, NEWS
CRAN checks: GSbench results

Documentation:

Reference manual: GSbench.html , GSbench.pdf
Vignettes: Benchmarking genomic prediction models with GSbench (source, R code)

Downloads:

Package source: GSbench_0.1.0.tar.gz
Windows binaries: r-devel: not available, r-release: not available, r-oldrel: not available
macOS binaries: r-release (arm64): GSbench_0.1.0.tgz, r-oldrel (arm64): not available, r-release (x86_64): GSbench_0.1.0.tgz, r-oldrel (x86_64): GSbench_0.1.0.tgz

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