About the Authors

Niina Haiminen

nhaimin@us.ibm.com (NH); isidore.rigoutsos@jefferson.edu (IR)

Affiliation Computational Biology Center, IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center, Yorktown Heights, New York, United States of America

David N. Kuhn

Affiliation Subtropical Horticulture Research Station, Agricultural Research Service (ARS), United States Department of Agriculture (USDA), Miami, Florida, United Sates of America

Laxmi Parida

Affiliation Computational Biology Center, IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center, Yorktown Heights, New York, United States of America

Isidore Rigoutsos

nhaimin@us.ibm.com (NH); isidore.rigoutsos@jefferson.edu (IR)

Current address: Computational Medicine Center, Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Affiliation Computational Biology Center, IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center, Yorktown Heights, New York, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have read the journal's policy and have the following conflicts. Niina Haiminen and Laxmi Parida are employees of IBM. Isidore Rigoutsos and David N. Kuhn were employed by IBM at the time of the study. There are no patents, products in development or marketed products to declare. This does not alter the authors' adherence to all the PLoS ONE policies on sharing data and materials, as detailed online in the guide for authors.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: IR NH. Performed the experiments: NH. Analyzed the data: NH IR DNK LP. Wrote the paper: NH IR. Designed the assembly evaluation protocol: LP NH .