About the Authors

Raheleh Salari

Contributed equally to this work with: Raheleh Salari, Cagri Aksay

Affiliation School of Computing Science, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada

Cagri Aksay

Contributed equally to this work with: Raheleh Salari, Cagri Aksay

Affiliation School of Computing Science, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada

Emre Karakoc

Affiliation School of Computer Science, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada

Peter J. Unrau

Affiliation Department of Molecular Biology and Biochemistry, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada

Iman Hajirasouliha

Affiliation School of Computing Science, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada

S. Cenk Sahinalp

cenk@cs.sfu.ca

Affiliation School of Computing Science, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: RS CA SCS. Performed the experiments: RS CA. Analyzed the data: RS CA SCS. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: EK PU IH. Wrote the paper: RS CA SCS.