About the Authors

Yan Wei Lim

ylim@rohan.sdsu.edu

Affiliation Department of Biology, San Diego State University, San Diego, California, United States of America

Robert Schmieder

Affiliation Computational Science Research Center, San Diego State University, San Diego, California, United States of America

Matthew Haynes

Current address: DOE Joint Genome Institute, Walnut Creek, California, United States of America

Affiliation Department of Biology, San Diego State University, San Diego, California, United States of America

Mike Furlan

Affiliation Department of Biology, San Diego State University, San Diego, California, United States of America

T. David Matthews

Affiliation Department of Biology, San Diego State University, San Diego, California, United States of America

Katrine Whiteson

Affiliation Department of Biology, San Diego State University, San Diego, California, United States of America

Stephen J. Poole

Affiliation Department of Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology, University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, California, United States of America

Christopher S. Hayes

Affiliations Department of Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology, University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, California, United States of America, Biomolecular Science and Engineering Program, University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, California, United States of America

David A. Low

Affiliations Department of Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology, University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, California, United States of America, Biomolecular Science and Engineering Program, University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, California, United States of America

Heather Maughan

Affiliation Ronin Institute, Montclair, New Jersey, United States of America

Robert Edwards

Affiliations Computational Science Research Center, San Diego State University, San Diego, California, United States of America, Mathematics and Computer Science Division, Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, Illinois, United States of America

Douglas Conrad

Affiliation Department of Medicine, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, California, United States of America

Forest Rohwer

Affiliation Department of Biology, San Diego State University, San Diego, California, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: YWL MH TDM FLR. Performed the experiments: YWL MH. Analyzed the data: YWL RS MH TDM MF SP CH DL FLR. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: RS MF RE DC. Wrote the paper: YWL RS HM KW.