About the Authors

Guillaume Marçais

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Software, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

gmarcais@cs.cmu.edu (GM); alekseyz@ipst.umd.edu (AZ)

Affiliations Institute for Physical Science and Technology, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland, United States of America, Computational Biology Department, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Arthur L. Delcher

Roles Data curation, Software, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Center for Computational Biology, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

Adam M. Phillippy

Roles Data curation, Software, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation National Human Genome Research Institute, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Rachel Coston

Roles Formal analysis, Validation

Affiliation Center for Computational Biology, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

Steven L. Salzberg

Roles Funding acquisition, Methodology, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Center for Computational Biology, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America, Departments of Biomedical Engineering, Computer Science, and Biostatistics, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

Aleksey Zimin

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Software, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

gmarcais@cs.cmu.edu (GM); alekseyz@ipst.umd.edu (AZ)

Affiliations Institute for Physical Science and Technology, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland, United States of America, Center for Computational Biology, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.