About the Authors

Sheldon L. Reeves

Contributed equally to this work with: Sheldon L. Reeves, Kelsey E. Fleming

Affiliation Department of Computer Science, State University of New York Polytechnic Institute, Utica, New York, United States of America

Kelsey E. Fleming

Contributed equally to this work with: Sheldon L. Reeves, Kelsey E. Fleming

Affiliation Department of Biology, State University of New York Albany, Albany, New York, United States of America

Lin Zhang

Affiliation Department of Computer Science, State University of New York Albany, Albany, New York, United States of America

Annalisa Scimemi

scimemia@gmail.com, ascimemi@albany.edu

Affiliation Department of Biology, State University of New York Albany, Albany, New York, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceptualization: AS. Data curation: AS. Formal analysis: KEF AS. Funding acquisition: AS. Investigation: KEF AS. Methodology: AS. Project administration: AS. Resources: AS. Software: SLR LZ AS. Supervision: AS. Validation: LZ AS. Visualization: AS. Writing – original draft: AS. Writing – review & editing: AS.