About the Authors

Eric A. Franzosa

Affiliation Bioinformatics Program, Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Véronique Albanèse

Affiliation Department of Biology, Stanford University, Stanford, California, United States of America

Judith Frydman

Affiliation Department of Biology, Stanford University, Stanford, California, United States of America

Yu Xia

Affiliations Bioinformatics Program, Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Department of Chemistry, Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Amie J. McClellan

amcclellan@bennington.edu

Affiliation Division of Natural Sciences and Mathematics, Bennington College, Bennington, Vermont, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: EAF VA JF YX AJM. Performed the experiments: EAF VA AJM. Analyzed the data: EAF VA YX AJM. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: EAF VA JF YX AJM. Wrote the paper: EAF AJM.