About the Authors

John W. Fondon III

fondon@uta.edu (JWF); david.mittelman@vt.edu (DM)

Affiliation Department of Biology, University of Texas at Arlington, Arlington, Texas, United States of America

Andy Martin

Affiliation Virginia Bioinformatics Institute, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Virginia, United States of America

Stephen Richards

Affiliations Human Genome Sequencing Center, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, United States of America, Department of Molecular and Human Genetics, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Richard A. Gibbs

Affiliations Human Genome Sequencing Center, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, United States of America, Department of Molecular and Human Genetics, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, United States of America

David Mittelman

fondon@uta.edu (JWF); david.mittelman@vt.edu (DM)

Affiliations Virginia Bioinformatics Institute, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Virginia, United States of America, Department of Biological Sciences, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Virginia, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: JWF DM. Performed the experiments: JWF AM DM. Analyzed the data: JWF AM SR RAG DM. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: SR RAG. Wrote the paper: JWF AM DM.