About the Authors

Miriam A. Rosenbaum

Current address: Institute of Applied Microbiology, RWTH Aachen University, Aachen, Germany

Affiliation Department of Biological and Environmental Engineering, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, United States of America

Haim Y. Bar

Affiliation Department of Biological Statistics and Computational Biology, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, United States of America

Qasim K. Beg

Affiliation Department of Biomedical Engineering, Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Daniel Segrè

Affiliations Department of Biomedical Engineering, Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Department of Biology, Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Bioinformatics Program, Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

James Booth

Affiliation Department of Biological Statistics and Computational Biology, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, United States of America

Michael A. Cotta

Affiliation Bioenergy Research Unit, United States Department of Agriculture, Agricultural Research Service (ARS), National Center for Agricultural Utilization Research (NCAUR), Peoria, Illinois, United States of America

Largus T. Angenent

la249@cornell.edu

Affiliation Department of Biological and Environmental Engineering, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: MAR DS LTA MAC. Performed the experiments: MAR QKB. Analyzed the data: MAR HYB MAC. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: HYB QKB DS JB. Wrote the paper: MAR HYB JB LTA.