About the Authors

Ryan P. Lamers

Affiliation Department of Molecular Biology and Microbiology, University of Central Florida College of Medicine, Orlando, Florida, United States of America

Jason W. Stinnett

Contributed equally to this work with: Jason W. Stinnett, Gowrishankar Muthukrishnan

Affiliation School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, University of Central Florida, Orlando, Florida, United States of America

Gowrishankar Muthukrishnan

Contributed equally to this work with: Jason W. Stinnett, Gowrishankar Muthukrishnan

Affiliation Department of Molecular Biology and Microbiology, University of Central Florida College of Medicine, Orlando, Florida, United States of America

Christopher L. Parkinson

Affiliation Department of Biology, University of Central Florida, Orlando, Florida, United States of America

Alexander M. Cole

acole@mail.ucf.edu

Affiliation Department of Molecular Biology and Microbiology, University of Central Florida College of Medicine, Orlando, Florida, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: RPL CLP AMC. Performed the experiments: RPL GM. Analyzed the data: RPL JWS GM CLP AMC. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: JWS CLP. Wrote the paper: RPL CLP AMC. Designed the software used in analysis: JWS.