About the Authors

Ralf Eggeling

Contributed equally to this work with: Ralf Eggeling, André Gohr, Jens Keilwagen

eggeling@informatik.uni-halle.de

Affiliation Institute of Computer Science, Martin Luther University Halle–Wittenberg, Halle/Saale, Germany

André Gohr

Contributed equally to this work with: Ralf Eggeling, André Gohr, Jens Keilwagen

Affiliation Institute of Computer Science, Martin Luther University Halle–Wittenberg, Halle/Saale, Germany

Jens Keilwagen

Contributed equally to this work with: Ralf Eggeling, André Gohr, Jens Keilwagen

Affiliations Institute for Biosafety in Plant Biotechnology, Julius Kühn-Institut (JKI) - Federal Research Centre for Cultivated Plants, Quedlinburg, Germany, Department of Genebank, Leibniz Institute of Plant Genetics and Crop Plant Research (IPK), Seeland OT Gatersleben, Germany

Michaela Mohr

Affiliation Department of Genebank, Leibniz Institute of Plant Genetics and Crop Plant Research (IPK), Seeland OT Gatersleben, Germany

Stefan Posch

Affiliation Institute of Computer Science, Martin Luther University Halle–Wittenberg, Halle/Saale, Germany

Andrew D. Smith

Affiliation Molecular and Computational Biology, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, United States of America

Ivo Grosse

Affiliations Institute of Computer Science, Martin Luther University Halle–Wittenberg, Halle/Saale, Germany, Department of Genebank, Leibniz Institute of Plant Genetics and Crop Plant Research (IPK), Seeland OT Gatersleben, Germany, German Center of Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv) Halle-Jena-Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: RE JK AG MM SP ADS IG. Performed the experiments: RE JK MM. Analyzed the data: RE JK AG IG. Wrote the paper: RE IG. Implemented the software: RE JK AG.