About the Authors

Joseph J. Gillespie

To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail: pvittata@hotmail.com

Affiliations Virginia Bioinformatics Institute at Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Vigrinia, United States of America, Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

Kelly Williams

Affiliation Virginia Bioinformatics Institute at Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Vigrinia, United States of America

Maulik Shukla

Affiliation Virginia Bioinformatics Institute at Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Vigrinia, United States of America

Eric E. Snyder

Affiliation Virginia Bioinformatics Institute at Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Vigrinia, United States of America

Eric K. Nordberg

Affiliation Virginia Bioinformatics Institute at Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Vigrinia, United States of America

Shane M. Ceraul

Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

Chitti Dharmanolla

Affiliation Virginia Bioinformatics Institute at Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Vigrinia, United States of America

Daphne Rainey

Affiliation Virginia Bioinformatics Institute at Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Vigrinia, United States of America

Jeetendra Soneja

Affiliation Virginia Bioinformatics Institute at Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Vigrinia, United States of America

Joshua M. Shallom

Affiliation Virginia Bioinformatics Institute at Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Vigrinia, United States of America

Nataraj Dongre Vishnubhat

Affiliation Virginia Bioinformatics Institute at Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Vigrinia, United States of America

Rebecca Wattam

Affiliation Virginia Bioinformatics Institute at Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Vigrinia, United States of America

Anjan Purkayastha

Affiliation Virginia Bioinformatics Institute at Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Vigrinia, United States of America

Michael Czar

Affiliation Virginia Bioinformatics Institute at Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Vigrinia, United States of America

Oswald Crasta

Affiliation Virginia Bioinformatics Institute at Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Vigrinia, United States of America

Joao C. Setubal

Affiliation Virginia Bioinformatics Institute at Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Vigrinia, United States of America

Abdu F. Azad

Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

Bruno S. Sobral

Affiliation Virginia Bioinformatics Institute at Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Vigrinia, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: AA BS JG. Performed the experiments: OC JG JS AP JS KW MS ES EN CD JS NV RW MC. Analyzed the data: JG KW SC DR. Wrote the paper: AA BS JG JS KW.