About the Authors

Christian Darabos

christian.darabos@dartmouth.edu

Affiliation Computational Genetics Laboratory, Dartmouth Medical School, Lebanon, New Hampshire, United States of America

Ferdinando Di Cunto

Affiliation Computational Biology Unit, Molecular Biotechnology Center, Department of Genetics Biology and Biochemistry, University of Torino, Torino, Italy

Marco Tomassini

Affiliation Information Systems Department, Faculty of Business and Economics, University of Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland

Jason H. Moore

Affiliation Computational Genetics Laboratory, Dartmouth Medical School, Lebanon, New Hampshire, United States of America

Paolo Provero

Affiliation Computational Biology Unit, Molecular Biotechnology Center, Department of Genetics Biology and Biochemistry, University of Torino, Torino, Italy

Mario Giacobini

Affiliations Computational Biology Unit, Molecular Biotechnology Center, Department of Genetics Biology and Biochemistry, University of Torino, Torino, Italy, Department of Animal Production Epidemiology and Ecology, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, University of Torino, Torino, Italy

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: CD FDC MT JHM PP MG. Performed the experiments: CD MG. Analyzed the data: CD FDC MT JHM PP MG. Wrote the paper: CD FDC MT JHM PP MG.