projectglow/glow: v0.6.0

We are excited to announce the release of Glow 0.6.0. This release includes both Java/Scala and Python artifacts that can be found in Maven Central and PyPI, respectively. Please note that the name of Maven Artifacts has changed from glow to glow-spark3 and glow-spark2 as glow is now released for both versions of Spark.

Notable additions/changes are:

• #245 Added GloWGR for binary traits
• #240 Input validation for GloWGR
• #242 transform_loco function for RidgeRegression, which applies the fitted model in a leave-one-chromosome-out to get phenotype predictors for each chromosome
• #243 reshape_for_gwas convenience function to prepare the output of GloWGR for use in glow GWAS functions
• #285 Improved performance of lift_over_variants transformer
• #249 Faster conversion form python double array to java array
• #276 Added support for reading uncompressed or zstd compressed BGEN files
• #254 , #291 Feature to cross release for Spark 3 and Spark 2
• #258 Fixed error in python literal conversion
• #264 Fixed splitability state of non-compressed VCFs
• #271, #281 Minor fixes to GloWGR
• #247, #250, #252, #273, #275, #279, #287 Documentation, notebook, and blog improvements
• Other minor fixes