About the Authors

María Ballester

Contributed equally to this work with: María Ballester, Rubén Cordón

maria.ballester@cragenomica.es

Affiliations Department of Animal Genetics, Centre de Recerca en Agrigenòmica (CRAG), Consorci CSIC-IRTA-UAB-UB, Bellaterra, Spain, Departament de Ciència Animal i dels Aliments, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB), Bellaterra, Spain

Rubén Cordón

Contributed equally to this work with: María Ballester, Rubén Cordón

Affiliation Department of Computer Science, Centre de Recerca en Sanitat Animal (CReSA), UAB-IRTA, Bellaterra, Spain

Josep M. Folch

Affiliations Department of Animal Genetics, Centre de Recerca en Agrigenòmica (CRAG), Consorci CSIC-IRTA-UAB-UB, Bellaterra, Spain, Departament de Ciència Animal i dels Aliments, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB), Bellaterra, Spain

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: MB JMF. Performed the experiments: MB. Analyzed the data: MB RC JMF. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: MB RC JMF. Wrote the paper: MB JMF. Developed the software: RC. Tested the software: MB JMF.