About the Authors

Syed Abbas Bukhari

Affiliations Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology, University of Illinois, Urbana Champaign, Urbana, IL, United States of America, Illinois Informatics Institute, University of Illinois, Urbana Champaign, Urbana, IL, United States of America

Michael C. Saul

Affiliation Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology, University of Illinois, Urbana Champaign, Urbana, IL, United States of America

Christopher H. Seward

Affiliation Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology, University of Illinois, Urbana Champaign, Urbana, IL, United States of America

Huimin Zhang

Affiliation Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology, University of Illinois, Urbana Champaign, Urbana, IL, United States of America

Miles Bensky

Affiliation Program in Ecology, Evolution and Conservation Biology, University of Illinois, Urbana Champaign, Urbana, IL, United States of America

Noelle James

Affiliation Neuroscience Program, University of Illinois, Urbana Champaign, Urbana, IL, United States of America

Sihai Dave Zhao

Affiliations Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology, University of Illinois, Urbana Champaign, Urbana, IL, United States of America, Department of Statistics, University of Illinois, Urbana Champaign, Urbana, IL United States of America

Sriram Chandrasekaran

Current address: Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, United States of America

Affiliations Harvard Society of Fellows, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, United States of America, Faculty of Arts and Sciences, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, United States of America, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, MA, United States of America

Lisa Stubbs

Affiliations Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology, University of Illinois, Urbana Champaign, Urbana, IL, United States of America, Department of Cell and Developmental Biology, University of Illinois, Urbana Champaign, Urbana, IL, United States of America

Alison M. Bell

alisonmb@illinois.edu

Affiliations Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology, University of Illinois, Urbana Champaign, Urbana, IL, United States of America, Program in Ecology, Evolution and Conservation Biology, University of Illinois, Urbana Champaign, Urbana, IL, United States of America, Neuroscience Program, University of Illinois, Urbana Champaign, Urbana, IL, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceptualization: LS AMB SAB. Data curation: SAB. Formal analysis: SAB MCS CHS SDZ SC. Funding acquisition: LS AB. Investigation: CHS HZ MB NJ. Methodology: SAB MCS. Project administration: AMB. Resources: AMB LS. Software: SAB MB SDZ SC. Supervision: AMB LS. Visualization: SAB. Writing – original draft: SAB AMB. Writing – review & editing: SAB MCS MB NJ SDZ SC LS AMB.