A primer on high-throughput computing for genomic selection.

"Conflict of Interest Statement The authors declare that the research was conducted in the absence of any commercial or financial relationships that could be construed as a potential conflict of interest."

"This research was supported by the University of Wisconsin (UW) Foundation, the genomic selection grant of the Merial Ltd., and National Research Initiative competitive grant no. 2009-35205-05099 from the USDA National Institute for Food and Agriculture Animal Genome Program (Washington, DC, USA). William Taylor at the UW Center for High-Throughput Computing (CHTC) is acknowledged for technical assistance. Yao Chen is acknowledged for helping make graphs 1, 2, and 3. The BayesCpi program was modified from an example R program used in the short course taught by Dr. R. L. Fernando at the Iowa State University."