About the Authors

David K. Tcheng

Affiliation Illinois Informatics Institute, University of Illinois, Urbana, Illinois, United States of America

Ashwin K. Nayak

Affiliation School of Integrative Biology, University of Illinois, Urbana, Illinois, United States of America

Charless C. Fowlkes

Affiliation Department of Computer Science, University of California Irvine, Irvine, California, United States of America

Surangi W. Punyasena

punyasena@life.illinois.edu

Affiliation Department of Plant Biology, School of Integrative Biology, University of Illinois, Urbana, Illinois, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: DKT SWP. Performed the experiments: DKT AKN. Analyzed the data: DKT AKN CCF SWP. Wrote the paper: DKT SWP AKN CCF. Designed the software used in analysis: DKT.