About the Authors

Christopher A. Lavender

Affiliation Department of Chemistry, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States of America

Ronny Lorenz

Affiliations Institute for Theoretical Chemistry, University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria, Bioinformatics Group, Department of Computer Science, University of Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany

Ge Zhang

Affiliation Department of Chemistry, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States of America

Rita Tamayo

Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States of America

Ivo L. Hofacker

Affiliations Institute for Theoretical Chemistry, University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria, Bioinformatics and Computational Biology, University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria

Kevin M. Weeks

weeks@unc.edu

Affiliation Department of Chemistry, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: CAL GZ KMW. Performed the experiments: CAL GZ RT. Analyzed the data: CAL GZ KMW. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: RL RT ILH. Wrote the paper: CAL KMW.