About the Authors

Liliana Florea

florea@umiacs.umd.edu

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

Alexander Souvorov

Affiliation National Center for Biotechnology Information, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Theodore S. Kalbfleisch

Affiliation Center for Genetics and Molecular Medicine, University of Louisville, Louisville, Kentucky, United States of America

Steven L. Salzberg

Affiliation Center for Bioinformatics and Computational Biology, 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: SLS LF. Performed the experiments: LF AS TSK. Analyzed the data: LF AS TSK. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: LF AS TSK. Wrote the paper: LF SLS.