About the Authors

Yared H. Kidane

Affiliation Genetics, Bioinformatics, and Computational Biology PhD Program, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Virginia, United States of America

Christopher Lawrence

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

T. M. Murali

murali@cs.vt.edu

Affiliations Department of Computer Science, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Virginia, United States of America, ICTAS Center for Systems Biology of Engineered Tissues, 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: TMM. Performed the experiments: YHK. Analyzed the data: YHK. Wrote the paper: YHK CL TMM.