About the Authors
- Haitham Marakeby
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Contributed equally to this work with: Haitham Marakeby, Eman Badr, Hanaa Torkey
Affiliation Department of Computer Science, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Virginia, United States of America
- Eman Badr
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Contributed equally to this work with: Haitham Marakeby, Eman Badr, Hanaa Torkey
Affiliation Department of Computer Science, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Virginia, United States of America
- Hanaa Torkey
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Contributed equally to this work with: Haitham Marakeby, Eman Badr, Hanaa Torkey
Affiliation Department of Computer Science, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Virginia, United States of America
- Yuhyun Song
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Affiliation Department of Statistics, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Virginia, United States of America
- Scotland Leman
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Affiliation Department of Statistics, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Virginia, United States of America
- Caroline L. Monteil
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Affiliations Department of Plant Pathology, Physiology and Weed Science, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Virginia, United States of America, INRA, UR0407 Pathologie Végétale; Montfavet, France
- Lenwood S. Heath
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Affiliations Department of Computer Science, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Virginia, United States of America, This Genomic Life Inc., Blacksburg, Virginia, United States of America
- Boris A. Vinatzer
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* E-mail: vinatzer@vt.edu
Affiliations Department of Plant Pathology, Physiology and Weed Science, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Virginia, United States of America, This Genomic Life Inc., Blacksburg, Virginia, United States of America
Competing Interests
Boris Vinatzer is a PLOS ONE Editorial Board member. A provisional patent describing genome similarity-based codes was submitted by Virginia Tech in 2013. Name of provisional patent: “A Method to Assign Genome-Based Identification Numbers to Classes of Organisms” with U.S. Patent Application number 61/774,030. The corresponding author Boris A. Vinatzer and the contributing author Lenwood S. Heath also founded This Genomic Life Inc. with the intent of developing technology for assigning genome similarity-based codes on a large scale. There are no further patents, products in development or marketed products to declare. This does not alter the authors’ adherence to all the PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.
Author Contributions
Conceived and designed the experiments: SL LSH BAV. Analyzed the data: HM EB HT YS SL LSH BAV. Wrote the paper: CLM LSH BAV.