About the Authors

Majid Kazemian

Contributed equally to this work with: Majid Kazemian, Charles Blatti

Affiliation Department of Computer Science, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana-Champaign, Illinois, United States of America

Charles Blatti

Contributed equally to this work with: Majid Kazemian, Charles Blatti

Affiliation Department of Computer Science, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana-Champaign, Illinois, United States of America

Adam Richards

Affiliations Program in Gene Function and Expression, University of Massachusetts Medical School, Worcester, Massachusetts, United States of America, Department of Molecular Medicine, University of Massachusetts Medical School, Worcester, Massachusetts, United States of America

Michael McCutchan

Affiliation Center for Evolutionary Functional Genomics, Biodesign Institute, Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona, United States of America

Noriko Wakabayashi-Ito

Affiliations Program in Gene Function and Expression, University of Massachusetts Medical School, Worcester, Massachusetts, United States of America, Department of Molecular Medicine, University of Massachusetts Medical School, Worcester, Massachusetts, United States of America

Ann S. Hammonds

Affiliation Department of Genome Dynamics, Berkeley Drosophila Genome Project, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California, United States of America

Susan E. Celniker

Affiliation Department of Genome Dynamics, Berkeley Drosophila Genome Project, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California, United States of America

Sudhir Kumar

Affiliation Center for Evolutionary Functional Genomics, Biodesign Institute, Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona, United States of America

Scot A. Wolfe

Affiliations Program in Gene Function and Expression, University of Massachusetts Medical School, Worcester, Massachusetts, United States of America, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Pharmacology, University of Massachusetts Medical School, Worcester, Massachusetts, United States of America

Michael H. Brodsky

sinhas@illinois.edu (SS); Michael.brodsky@umassmed.edu (MHB)

Affiliations Program in Gene Function and Expression, University of Massachusetts Medical School, Worcester, Massachusetts, United States of America, Department of Molecular Medicine, University of Massachusetts Medical School, Worcester, Massachusetts, United States of America

Saurabh Sinha

sinhas@illinois.edu (SS); Michael.brodsky@umassmed.edu (MHB)

Affiliations Department of Computer Science, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana-Champaign, Illinois, United States of America, Institute of Genomic Biology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana-Champaign, Illinois, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

The author(s) have made the following declarations about their contributions: Conceived and designed the experiments: MK CB SAW MHB SS. Performed the experiments: MK CB NWI ASH MHB. Analyzed the data: MK CB SS. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: AR MM SEC SK. Wrote the paper: SAW MHB SS.