About the Authors

Brandon M. Malone

Contributed equally to this work with: Brandon M. Malone, Feng Tan

Affiliations Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Mississippi State University, Mississippi, United States of America, Institute for Genomics, Biocomputing, and Biotechnology, Mississippi State University, Mississippi, United States of America

Feng Tan

Contributed equally to this work with: Brandon M. Malone, Feng Tan

Affiliation Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Mississippi State University, Mississippi, United States of America

Susan M. Bridges

zp7@BCH.msstate.edu (ZP); bridges@cse.msstate.edu (SB)

Affiliations Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Mississippi State University, Mississippi, United States of America, Institute for Genomics, Biocomputing, and Biotechnology, Mississippi State University, Mississippi, United States of America

Zhaohua Peng

zp7@BCH.msstate.edu (ZP); bridges@cse.msstate.edu (SB)

Affiliation Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Mississippi State University, Mississippi, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: ZP. Performed the experiments: FT BM. Analyzed the data: BM FT SB ZP. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: ZP SB. Wrote the paper: ZP BM SB FT.