About the Authors

Jason Gioia

Contributed equally to this work with: Jason Gioia, Shailaja Yerrapragada

Affiliation Human Genome Sequencing Center, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Shailaja Yerrapragada

Contributed equally to this work with: Jason Gioia, Shailaja Yerrapragada

Affiliation Human Genome Sequencing Center, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Xiang Qin

Affiliation Human Genome Sequencing Center, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Huaiyang Jiang

Affiliation Human Genome Sequencing Center, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Okezie C. Igboeli

Affiliation Human Genome Sequencing Center, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Donna Muzny

Affiliation Human Genome Sequencing Center, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Shannon Dugan-Rocha

Affiliation Human Genome Sequencing Center, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Yan Ding

Affiliation Human Genome Sequencing Center, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Alicia Hawes

Affiliation Human Genome Sequencing Center, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Wen Liu

Affiliation Human Genome Sequencing Center, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Lesette Perez

Affiliation Human Genome Sequencing Center, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Christie Kovar

Affiliation Human Genome Sequencing Center, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Huyen Dinh

Affiliation Human Genome Sequencing Center, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Sandra Lee

Affiliation Human Genome Sequencing Center, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Lynne Nazareth

Affiliation Human Genome Sequencing Center, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Peter Blyth

Affiliation Human Genome Sequencing Center, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Michael Holder

Affiliation Human Genome Sequencing Center, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Christian Buhay

Affiliation Human Genome Sequencing Center, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Madhan R. Tirumalai

Affiliation Department of Biology and Biochemistry, University of Houston, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Yamei Liu

Affiliation Department of Biology and Biochemistry, University of Houston, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Indrani Dasgupta

Affiliation Department of Biology and Biochemistry, University of Houston, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Lina Bokhetache

Affiliation Department of Biology and Biochemistry, University of Houston, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Masaya Fujita

Affiliation Department of Biology and Biochemistry, University of Houston, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Fathi Karouia

Affiliation Department of Biology and Biochemistry, University of Houston, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Prahathees Eswara Moorthy

Affiliation Department of Biology and Biochemistry, University of Houston, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Johnathan Siefert

Affiliation Department of Biology and Biochemistry, University of Houston, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Akif Uzman

Affiliation Department of Natural Sciences, University of Houston‐Downtown, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Prince Buzumbo

Affiliation Department of Natural Sciences, University of Houston‐Downtown, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Avani Verma

Affiliation Department of Natural Sciences, University of Houston‐Downtown, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Hiba Zwiya

Affiliation Department of Natural Sciences, University of Houston‐Downtown, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Brian D. McWilliams

Affiliation Department of Molecular Virology and Microbiology, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Adeola Olowu

Affiliation University of St. Thomas, Houston Texas, United States of America

Kenneth D. Clinkenbeard

Affiliation Department of Veterinary Pathobiology, Center for Veterinary Health Sciences, Oklahoma State University, Stillwater, Oklahoma, United States of America

David Newcombe

Affiliations University of Idaho Coeur d'Alene, Coeur d'Alene, Idaho, United States of America, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California, United States of America

Lisa Golebiewski

Affiliation Department of Molecular Virology and Microbiology, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Joseph F. Petrosino

Affiliation Department of Molecular Virology and Microbiology, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Wayne L. Nicholson

Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Cell Science, University of Florida Space Life Sciences Laboratory, Kennedy Space Center, Florida, United States of America

George E. Fox

Affiliation Department of Biology and Biochemistry, University of Houston, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Kasthuri Venkateswaran

Affiliation Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California, United States of America

Sarah K. Highlander

Affiliations Human Genome Sequencing Center, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, United States of America, Department of Molecular Virology and Microbiology, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, United States of America

George M. Weinstock

To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail: gwstock@bcm.tmc.edu

Affiliations Human Genome Sequencing Center, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, United States of America, Department of Molecular and Human Genetics, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, United States of America, Department of Molecular Virology and Microbiology, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: GW KV GF WN SH. Performed the experiments: KV DM SD YD AH WL LP CK HD SL LN PB CB MH XQ HJ. Analyzed the data: GW AU KV AV GF JG SY MT YL ID LB MF FK PE JS PB AA HZ BM AO KC DN. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: GW JP KV DM SD YD AH WL LP CK HD SL LN PB CB MH SH JG SY XQ HJ OI MF LG. Wrote the paper: GW JG SY.