About the Authors

Garrett Katz

Current address: Department of Computer Science, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland, United States of America

Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Sophie Davis School of Biomedical Education, The City College of New York, New York, New York, United States of America

Younes Benkarroum

Affiliation Department of Computer Science, The Graduate Center, City University of New York, New York, New York, United States of America

Hui Wei

Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Sophie Davis School of Biomedical Education, The City College of New York, New York, New York, United States of America

William J. Rice

Affiliation The New York Structural Biology Center, New York, New York, United States of America

Doris Bucher

Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Immunology, New York Medical College, Valhalla, New York, United States of America

Alexandra Alimova

Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Sophie Davis School of Biomedical Education, The City College of New York, New York, New York, United States of America

Al Katz

Affiliation Department of Physics, The City College of New York, New York, New York, United States of America

Joanna Klukowska

Affiliation Department of Computer Science, The Graduate Center, City University of New York, New York, New York, United States of America

Gabor T. Herman

Affiliation Department of Computer Science, The Graduate Center, City University of New York, New York, New York, United States of America

Paul Gottlieb

PGottl@med.cuny.edu

Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Sophie Davis School of Biomedical Education, The City College of New York, New York, New York, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: DB AK GTH PG. Performed the experiments: HW AA WJR. Analyzed the data: GK YB WJR AK JK GTH PG. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: WJR DB. Wrote the paper: AK PG GTH DB.