About the Authors

Sushma Shivaswamy

Contributed equally to this work with: Sushma Shivaswamy, Akshay Bhinge

Affiliation Institute for Cellular and Molecular Biology, Center for Systems and Synthetic Biology, and Section of Molecular Genetics and Microbiology, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas, United States of America

Akshay Bhinge

Contributed equally to this work with: Sushma Shivaswamy, Akshay Bhinge

Affiliation Institute for Cellular and Molecular Biology, Center for Systems and Synthetic Biology, and Section of Molecular Genetics and Microbiology, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas, United States of America

Yongjun Zhao

Affiliation Michael Smith Genome Sciences Center, British Columbia Cancer Agency, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Steven Jones

Affiliation Michael Smith Genome Sciences Center, British Columbia Cancer Agency, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Martin Hirst

Affiliation Michael Smith Genome Sciences Center, British Columbia Cancer Agency, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Vishwanath R Iyer

To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail: vishy@mail.utexas.edu

Affiliation Institute for Cellular and Molecular Biology, Center for Systems and Synthetic Biology, and Section of Molecular Genetics and Microbiology, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

SS performed the experiments and wrote the paper. AB analyzed the data and contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools. YZ, SJ, and MH contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools. VRI conceived and designed the experiments and wrote the paper.