About the Authors

Harendra Guturu

Affiliations Department of Electrical Engineering, Stanford University, Stanford, California, United States of America, Department of Pediatrics (Genetics), Stanford University, Stanford, California, United States of America

Sandeep Chinchali

Affiliations Department of Electrical Engineering, Stanford University, Stanford, California, United States of America, Department of Computer Science, Stanford University, Stanford, California, United States of America

Shoa L. Clarke

Affiliation Department of Genetics, Stanford University, Stanford, California, United States of America

Gill Bejerano

bejerano@stanford.edu

Affiliations Department of Pediatrics (Genetics), Stanford University, Stanford, California, United States of America, Department of Computer Science, Stanford University, Stanford, California, United States of America, Department of Developmental Biology, Stanford University, Stanford, California, United States of America

Competing Interests

HG and GB are authors on a patent application (no. 14634809) for the algorithm described in this work, filed by Stanford University.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: HG GB. Performed the experiments: HG SC. Analyzed the data: HG GB. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: SLC. Wrote the paper: HG SC GB.