About the Authors

Cheong Xin Chan

Current address: The Roy J. Carver Center for Comparative Genomics and Department of Biology, The University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa, United States of America

Affiliation The University of Queensland, Institute for Molecular Biosciences, and ARC Centre of Excellence in Bioinformatics, Brisbane, Australia

Aaron E. Darling

Current address: Genome Center, University of California Davis, Davis, California, United States of America

Affiliation The University of Queensland, Institute for Molecular Biosciences, and ARC Centre of Excellence in Bioinformatics, Brisbane, Australia

Robert G. Beiko

Affiliations The University of Queensland, Institute for Molecular Biosciences, and ARC Centre of Excellence in Bioinformatics, Brisbane, Australia, Faculty of Computer Science, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada

Mark A. Ragan

m.ragan@imb.uq.edu.au

Affiliation The University of Queensland, Institute for Molecular Biosciences, and ARC Centre of Excellence in Bioinformatics, Brisbane, Australia

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: CXC AED RB MAR. Performed the experiments: CXC. Analyzed the data: CXC AED RB MAR. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: AED RB. Wrote the paper: CXC AED RB MAR.