About the Authors

Zhiyuan Yu

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Software, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Bioinformatics, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States of America

Tiffany Luong

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Investigation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Biology, San Diego State University, San Diego, California, United States of America

Selenne Banuelos

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Methodology, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Mathematics, California State University Channel Islands, Camarillo, California, United States of America

Andrew Sue

Roles Investigation

Affiliation Department of Biology, San Diego State University, San Diego, California, United States of America

Hwayeon Ryu

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Mathematics and Statistics, Elon University, Elon, North Carolina, United States of America

Rebecca Segal

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Project administration, Software, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Mathematics and Applied Mathematics, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, Virginia, United States of America

Dwayne R. Roach

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

dwayne.roach@sdsu.edu (DRR); qhuang@wooster.edu (QH)

‡ These authors are joint senior authors on this work.

Affiliation Department of Biology, San Diego State University, San Diego, California, United States of America

Qimin Huang

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Software, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

dwayne.roach@sdsu.edu (DRR); qhuang@wooster.edu (QH)

‡ These authors are joint senior authors on this work.

Affiliation Department of Mathematical & Computational Sciences, The College of Wooster, Wooster, Ohio, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.