About the Authors

Carl Kingsford

Contributed equally to this work with: Carl Kingsford, Niranjan Nagarajan

carlk@umiacs.umd.edu

Affiliations Center for Bioinformatics and Computational Biology, Institute for Advance Computer Studies, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland, United States of America, Department of Computer Science, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland, United States of America

Niranjan Nagarajan

Contributed equally to this work with: Carl Kingsford, Niranjan Nagarajan

Affiliation Center for Bioinformatics and Computational Biology, Institute for Advance Computer Studies, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland, United States of America

Steven L. Salzberg

Affiliations Center for Bioinformatics and Computational Biology, Institute for Advance Computer Studies, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland, United States of America, Department of Computer Science, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: CK NN. Performed the experiments: CK NN. Analyzed the data: CK NN SLS. Wrote the paper: CK NN SLS.