About the Authors

Rajesh Balagam

Affiliation Department of Bioengineering, Rice University, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Douglas B. Litwin

Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics, University of Texas – Houston Medical School, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Fabian Czerwinski

Affiliation Department of Physics and the Lewis-Sigler Institute of Integrative Genomics, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey, United States of America

Mingzhai Sun

Affiliation Department of Physics and the Lewis-Sigler Institute of Integrative Genomics, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey, United States of America

Heidi B. Kaplan

Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics, University of Texas – Houston Medical School, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Joshua W. Shaevitz

Shaevitz@princeton.edu (JWS); igoshin@rice.edu (OAI)

Affiliation Department of Physics and the Lewis-Sigler Institute of Integrative Genomics, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey, United States of America

Oleg A. Igoshin

Shaevitz@princeton.edu (JWS); igoshin@rice.edu (OAI)

Affiliation Department of Bioengineering, Rice University, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: RB DBL FC MS HBK JWS OAI. Performed the experiments: RB DBL FC MS. Analyzed the data: RB FC MS JWS OAI. Wrote the paper: RB FC HBK JWS OAI.