About the Authors

Ivan Chang

Affiliations Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of California Irvine, Irvine, California, United States of America, Institute of Genomic Biology, University of California Irvine, Irvine, California, United States of America

Margit Heiske

Affiliation INSERM U688, University of Bordeaux-2, Bordeaux, France

Thierry Letellier

Affiliation INSERM U688, University of Bordeaux-2, Bordeaux, France

Douglas Wallace

Affiliations Department of Biochemistry, University of California Irvine, Irvine, California, United States of America, Center for Mitochondrial and Molecular Medicine and Genetics (MAMMAG), University of California Irvine, Irvine, California, United States of America, Department of Computer Science, University of California Irvine, Irvine, California, United States of America

Pierre Baldi

pfbaldi@ics.uci.edu

Affiliations Department of Computer Science, University of California Irvine, Irvine, California, United States of America, Institute of Genomic Biology, University of California Irvine, Irvine, California, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: IC TL. Performed the experiments: IC MH. Analyzed the data: IC MH TL PB. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: TL DCW PB. Wrote the paper: IC DCW PB.