About the Authors

Jaebum Kim

Affiliation Department of Computer Science, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois, United States of America

Ryan Cunningham

Affiliation Department of Computer Science, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois, United States of America

Brian James

Affiliation Department of Computer Science, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois, United States of America

Stefan Wyder

Affiliation Department of Genetic Medicine and Development, University of Geneva Medical School, and Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics, Geneva, Switzerland

Joshua D. Gibson

Affiliation School of Life Sciences, Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona, United States of America

Oliver Niehuis

Affiliation Department of Biology, University of Osnabrück, Osnabrück, Germany

Evgeny M. Zdobnov

Affiliation Department of Genetic Medicine and Development, University of Geneva Medical School, and Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics, Geneva, Switzerland

Hugh M. Robertson

Affiliations Department of Entomology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois, United States of America, Institute for Genomic Biology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois, United States of America

Gene E. Robinson

Affiliations Department of Entomology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois, United States of America, Institute for Genomic Biology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois, United States of America

John H. Werren

Affiliation Department of Biology, University of Rochester, Rochester, New York, United States of America

Saurabh Sinha

sinhas@illinois.edu

Affiliations Department of Computer Science, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois, United States of America, Institute for Genomic Biology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: JK SS. Performed the experiments: JK RC SS. Analyzed the data: JK SS. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: JK RC BJ SW JDG ON EMZ HMR GER JHW SS. Wrote the paper: JK SS.