About the Authors

Naihui Zhou

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Software, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Program in Bioinformatics and Computational Biology, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa, United States of America, Department of Veterinary Microbiology and Preventive Medicine, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa, United States of America

Zachary D. Siegel

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Visualization, Writing – original draft

Affiliation Department of Psychology, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa, United States of America

Scott Zarecor

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Software, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Genetics, Development and Cell Biology, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa, United States of America

Nigel Lee

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Software

Affiliation Department of Mechanical Engineering, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa, United States of America

Darwin A. Campbell

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Project administration, Software, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Genetics, Development and Cell Biology, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa, United States of America

Carson M. Andorf

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Software, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Agricultural Research Services, United States Department of Agriculture, Ames, Iowa, United States of America, Department of Computer Science, Iowa State University

Dan Nettleton

Roles Formal analysis, Methodology, Supervision, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Program in Bioinformatics and Computational Biology, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa, United States of America, Department of Statistics, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa, United States of America

Carolyn J. Lawrence-Dill

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

Affiliations Program in Bioinformatics and Computational Biology, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa, United States of America, Department of Genetics, Development and Cell Biology, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa, United States of America, Department of Agronomy, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa, United States of America

Baskar Ganapathysubramanian

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Supervision, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Mechanical Engineering, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa, United States of America

Jonathan W. Kelly

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

jonkelly@iastate.edu (JWK); idoerg@iastate.edu (IF)

Affiliation Department of Psychology, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa, United States of America

Iddo Friedberg

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

jonkelly@iastate.edu (JWK); idoerg@iastate.edu (IF)

Affiliations Program in Bioinformatics and Computational Biology, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa, United States of America, Department of Veterinary Microbiology and Preventive Medicine, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.