About the Authors

Pierre Nicolas

To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail: pierre.nicolas@jouy.inra.fr

Affiliation Unité Mathématique Informatique et Génome UR1077, Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique, Jouy-en-Josas, France

Kyoung-Mee Kim

Affiliation Department of Pathology, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

Darryl Shibata

Affiliation Program in Molecular and Computational Biology, Department of Biological Sciences, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

Simon Tavaré

Affiliation Department of Oncology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

PN designed the methodology, performed the analysis, and wrote the paper. KMK performed the lab experiments. DS performed the lab experiments, helped with the design of the methodology, the analyzes, and the writing of the manuscript. ST designed the methodology, performed the analysis, and wrote the paper.