“…Any General Feature Format (GFF) file containing segmentation information can be used, such as coordinates of CDSs, genes, exons or QTLs. If no particular segmentation pattern is specified, the reference genome FASTA file may be used to create a GFF file containing a userdefined, evenly spaced, segmentation pattern (Huang et al, 2009;Anderson et al, 2011;Prasad et al, 2013;Chen et al, 2014;, Liu et al, 2014. The resulting GFF is then used to split the VCF files into the desired segments, as consecutive windows, sliding windows, or any arbitrary filtering from the annotation file of the reference genome such as CDS, genes, exons, introns, etc.…”