About the Authors

Jungnam Lee

Affiliations Department of Biological Sciences, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, Louisiana, United States of America, Biological Computation and Visualization Center, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, Louisiana, United States of America

Kyudong Han

Affiliations Department of Biological Sciences, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, Louisiana, United States of America, Biological Computation and Visualization Center, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, Louisiana, United States of America

Thomas J. Meyer

Affiliations Department of Biological Sciences, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, Louisiana, United States of America, Biological Computation and Visualization Center, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, Louisiana, United States of America

Heui-Soo Kim

Affiliations PBBRC, Interdisciplinary Research Program of Bioinformatics, College of Natural Sciences, Pusan National University, Busan, Korea, Division of Biological Sciences, College of Natural Sciences, Pusan National University, Busan, Korea

Mark A. Batzer

mbatzer@lsu.edu

Affiliations Department of Biological Sciences, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, Louisiana, United States of America, Biological Computation and Visualization Center, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, Louisiana, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: JL KH MAB. Performed the experiments: JL KH TJM. Analyzed the data: JL KH TJM HSK MAB. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: MAB. Wrote the paper: JL MAB. Performed the computational anaylsis: KH HSK.