About the Authors

Abigail L. Lind

Affiliation Department of Biomedical Informatics, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, Tennessee, United States of America

Jennifer H. Wisecaver

Affiliation Department of Biological Sciences, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee, United States of America

Timothy D. Smith

Affiliation Department of Biological Sciences, Northern Illinois University, DeKalb, Illinois, United States of America

Xuehuan Feng

Affiliation Department of Biological Sciences, Northern Illinois University, DeKalb, Illinois, United States of America

Ana M. Calvo

Affiliation Department of Biological Sciences, Northern Illinois University, DeKalb, Illinois, United States of America

Antonis Rokas

antonis.rokas@vanderbilt.edu

Affiliations Department of Biomedical Informatics, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, Tennessee, United States of America, Department of Biological Sciences, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: ALL AMC AR. Performed the experiments: ALL JHW TDS XF AMC AR. Analyzed the data: ALL JHW AMC AR. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: ALL JHW TDS XF AMC AR. Wrote the paper: ALL JHW AMC AR.