About the Authors

Anna Kaznadzey

Affiliation Institute for Information Transmission Problems, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia

Natalia Alexandrova

nat_al@yahoo.com

Affiliation Genome Designs, Inc., Walnut Creek, California, United States of America

Vladimir Novichkov

Affiliation LabNext, Inc., Glenview, Illinois, United States of America

Denis Kaznadzey

Affiliation DOE Joint Genome Institute, Walnut Creek, California, United States of America

Competing Interests

VN is a co-founder of LabNext and NA is a co-founder of Genome Designs. There are no patents, products in development or marketed products to declare. This does not alter the authors’ adherence to all the PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials, as detailed online in the guide for authors.

Author Contributions

Algorithm design: VN DK. Software development: DK. Testing design: DK AK. Testing: AK. Analyzed the data: AK NA DK. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: AK DK VN. Wrote the paper: DK NA.