About the Authors

Yasser EL-Manzalawy

yasser@iastate.edu

Affiliation Department of Computer Science, Center for Computational Intelligence, Learning, and Discovery, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa, United States of America

Drena Dobbs

Affiliation Department of Genetics, Development and Cell Biology, Bioinformatics and Computational Biology Graduate Program, Center for Computational Intelligence, Learning and Discovery, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa, United States of America

Vasant Honavar

Affiliation Department of Computer Science, Center for Computational Intelligence, Learning, and Discovery, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: YEM. Performed the experiments: YEM. Analyzed the data: YEM DD VH. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: YEM DD VH. Wrote the paper: YEM DD VH.