About the Authors

Oswald R. Crasta

ocrasta@vbi.vt.edu

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

Otto Folkerts

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

Zhangjun Fei

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

Shrinivasrao P. Mane

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

Clive Evans

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

Susan Martino-Catt

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

Betsy Bricker

Affiliation National Animal Disease Center, Ames, Iowa, United States of America

GongXin Yu

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

Lei Du

Affiliation 454 Life Sciences, Branford, Connecticut, United States of America

Bruno W. Sobral

Affiliation Virginia Bioinformatics Institute, 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: OC CE BS SM. Performed the experiments: CE SM BB. Analyzed the data: OC OF ZF SM GY LD. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: BB. Wrote the paper: OC CE OF SM BB.