1.4 Acknowledgments

PyPedal was initially written to support the author's dissertation research while at Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge. It sat farrow for some time and has recently come under active development again. This is due in part to a request from colleagues at the University of Minnesota that led to the inclusion of new functionality in PyPedal. The author wishes to thank Dr. Paul VanRaden for very helpful suggestions for improving the ability of PyPedal to handle certain computations in very large pedigrees.