About the Authors

Nicolas Altemose

Current address: Department of Statistics, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom

Affiliation Genome Biology Group, Duke Institute for Genome Sciences & Policy, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America

Karen H. Miga

khmiga@soe.ucsc.edu

Current address: Center for Biomolecular Science & Engineering, University of California Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, California, United States of America

Affiliation Genome Biology Group, Duke Institute for Genome Sciences & Policy, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America

Mauro Maggioni

Affiliation Department of Mathematics, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America

Huntington F. Willard

Affiliation Genome Biology Group, Duke Institute for Genome Sciences & Policy, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: NA KHM MM. Performed the experiments: NA MM. Analyzed the data: NA KHM MM. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: NA KHM MM. Wrote the paper: NA KHM HFW.