About the Authors

Sanqing Yuan

Affiliations Department of Biological Sciences, University of Idaho, Moscow, Idaho, United States of America, Institute for Bioinformatics and Evolutionary Studies, University of Idaho, Moscow, Idaho, United States of America

Dora B. Cohen

Affiliations Department of Biological Sciences, University of Idaho, Moscow, Idaho, United States of America, Institute for Bioinformatics and Evolutionary Studies, University of Idaho, Moscow, Idaho, United States of America

Jacques Ravel

Affiliation Institute for Genome Sciences, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

Zaid Abdo

Affiliations Department of Mathematics, University of Idaho, Moscow, Idaho, United States of America, Department of Statistics, University of Idaho, Moscow, Idaho, United States of America, Institute for Bioinformatics and Evolutionary Studies, University of Idaho, Moscow, Idaho, United States of America

Larry J. Forney

lforney@uidaho.edu

Affiliations Department of Biological Sciences, University of Idaho, Moscow, Idaho, United States of America, Institute for Bioinformatics and Evolutionary Studies, University of Idaho, Moscow, Idaho, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: SY ZA JR LF. Performed the experiments: SY DBC. Analyzed the data: SY ZA LF. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: ZA LF. Wrote the paper: SY ZA LF.