About the Authors

Casey A. Cole

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

coleca@cse.sc.edu

Affiliation Department of Computer Science & Engineering, University of South Carolina, Columbia, South Carolina, United States of America

Nourhan S. Daigham

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Molecular Biology and Biochemistry, and Department of Biochemistry, Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, Piscataway, New Jersey, United States of America

Gaohua Liu

Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Nexomics Biosciences, Princeton, New Jersey, United States of America

Gaetano T. Montelione

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Department of Molecular Biology and Biochemistry, and Department of Biochemistry, Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, Piscataway, New Jersey, United States of America, Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, and Center for Biotechnology and Interdisciplinary Studies, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, New York, United States of America

Homayoun Valafar

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

Affiliation Department of Computer Science & Engineering, University of South Carolina, Columbia, South Carolina, United States of America

Competing Interests

I have read the journal's policy and the authors of this manuscript have the following competing interests: G.L. is Chief Scientific Officer at Nexomics. Biosciences, Inc. G.T.M. is Scientific Founder of Nexomics Biosciences, Inc. These affiliations are disclosed for information purposes, and do not imply any bias in the collection or interpretation of the data presented here.