About the Authors

Naoki Nariai

To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail: nariai@bu.edu

Affiliation Bioinformatics Program, Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Eric D. Kolaczyk

Affiliation Department of Mathematics and Statistics, Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Simon Kasif

Affiliations Bioinformatics Program, Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Department of Biomedical Engineering, Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: SK NN EK. Performed the experiments: NN. Analyzed the data: SK NN. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: NN. Wrote the paper: SK NN EK.