About the Authors

Luis C. González

Affiliation Department of Bioinformatics and Genomics, University of North Carolina at Charlotte, Charlotte, North Carolina, United States of America

Hui Wang

Affiliation Department of Physics and Optical Science, University of North Carolina at Charlotte, Charlotte, North Carolina, United States of America

Dennis R. Livesay

drlivesa@uncc.edu (DRL); djacobs1@uncc.edu (DJJ)

Affiliation Department of Bioinformatics and Genomics, University of North Carolina at Charlotte, Charlotte, North Carolina, United States of America

Donald J. Jacobs

drlivesa@uncc.edu (DRL); djacobs1@uncc.edu (DJJ)

Affiliation Department of Physics and Optical Science, University of North Carolina at Charlotte, Charlotte, North Carolina, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: DRL DJJ. Performed the experiments: LCG. Analyzed the data: LCG. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: LCG HW. Wrote the paper: LCG DRL DJJ.