About the Authors

Daniela Puiu

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

Steven L. Salzberg

salzberg@umd.edu

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. Performed the experiments: DP. Analyzed the data: DP SLS. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: SLS. Wrote the paper: DP SLS.