About the Authors

Todd A. Castoe

Contributed equally to this work with: Todd A. Castoe, Zhi J. Jiang

Affiliation Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Genetics, University of Colorado School of Medicine, Aurora, Colorado, United States of America

Zhi J. Jiang

Contributed equally to this work with: Todd A. Castoe, Zhi J. Jiang

Current address: Computational Biology, Scripps Florida, Jupiter, Florida, United States of America

Affiliation Department of Biological Sciences, Biological Computation and Visualization Center, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, Louisiana, United States of America

Wanjun Gu

Affiliation Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Genetics, University of Colorado School of Medicine, Aurora, Colorado, United States of America

Zhengyuan O. Wang

Current address: Genome Sequencing Center, Department of Genetics, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri, United States of America

Affiliation Department of Biological Sciences, Biological Computation and Visualization Center, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, Louisiana, United States of America

David D. Pollock

David.Pollock@uchsc.edu

Affiliation Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Genetics, University of Colorado School of Medicine, Aurora, Colorado, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: DP. Performed the experiments: TC ZJ. Analyzed the data: DP TC ZJ WG ZW. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: DP WG. Wrote the paper: DP TC ZJ.