About the Authors

John D. Calaway

Affiliations Department of Genetics, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States of America, Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States of America, Carolina Center for Genome Sciences, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States of America, Curriculum in Genetics and Molecular Biology, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States of America

Alan B. Lenarcic

Affiliation Department of Genetics, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States of America

John P. Didion

Affiliations Department of Genetics, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States of America, Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States of America

Jeremy R. Wang

Affiliation Department of Computer Science, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States of America

Jeremy B. Searle

Affiliation Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, United States of America

Leonard McMillan

Affiliation Department of Computer Science, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States of America

William Valdar

Affiliations Department of Genetics, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States of America, Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States of America

Fernando Pardo-Manuel de Villena

fernando@med.unc.edu

Affiliations Department of Genetics, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States of America, Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States of America, Carolina Center for Genome Sciences, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States of America, Curriculum in Genetics and Molecular Biology, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: JDC FPMdV. Performed the experiments: JDC. Analyzed the data: JDC ABL WV FPMdV. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: ABL JPD JRW JBS LM WV. Wrote the paper: JDC ABL WV FPMdV.