About the Authors

Leila Taher

Affiliation Computational Biology Branch, National Center for Biotechnology Information, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Nicole M. Collette

Affiliation Biology and Biotechnology Division, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, California, United States of America

Deepa Murugesh

Affiliation Biology and Biotechnology Division, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, California, United States of America

Evan Maxwell

Affiliation Bioinformatics Program, Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Ivan Ovcharenko

Affiliation Computational Biology Branch, National Center for Biotechnology Information, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Gabriela G. Loots

loots1@llnl.gov

Affiliations Biology and Biotechnology Division, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, California, United States of America, School of Natural Sciences, University of California Merced, Merced, California, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: GL. Performed the experiments: LT NC DM. Analyzed the data: LT DM EM. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: LT IO. Wrote the paper: GL LT.