About the Authors

Jamie I. MacPherson

Affiliation Faculty of Life Sciences, Michael Smith Building, University of Manchester, Manchester, United Kingdom

Jonathan E. Dickerson

Affiliation Faculty of Life Sciences, Michael Smith Building, University of Manchester, Manchester, United Kingdom

John W. Pinney

Affiliation Centre for Bioinformatics, Division of Molecular Biosciences, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom

David L. Robertson

david.robertson@manchester.ac.uk

Affiliation Faculty of Life Sciences, Michael Smith Building, University of Manchester, Manchester, United Kingdom

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: JIM JWP DLR. Performed the experiments: JIM. Analyzed the data: JIM JED JWP DLR. Wrote the paper: JIM DLR.