About the Authors

E. Jane Homan

jane_homan@iogenetics.com

Affiliation ioGenetics LLC, Madison, Wisconsin, United States of America

Robert D. Bremel

Affiliation ioGenetics LLC, Madison, Wisconsin, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have read the journal's policy and have the following conflicts: Both authors are employees and shareholders in ioGenetics LLC and inventors on patent applications filed on the uTOPE™bioinformatics technology (US Application No. 13/052,733; PCT/US2011/029192). This does not alter the authors' adherence to all the PLoS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: EJH RDB. Performed the experiments: EJH RDB. Analyzed the data: EJH RDB. Wrote the paper: EJH RDB.