About the Authors

Anne E. Thessen

annethessen@gmail.com

Affiliations Environmental and Molecular Toxicology, Oregon State University, Corvallis, Oregon, United States of America, Ronin Institute for Independent Scholarship, Monclair, New Jersey, United States of America

Ramona L. Walls

Affiliation Bio5 Institute, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona, United States of America

Lars Vogt

Affiliation TIB Leibniz Information Centre for Science and Technology, Hannover, Germany

Jessica Singer

Affiliation Annex Agriculture Inc., Saskatchewan, Canada

Robert Warren

Affiliation Annex Agriculture Inc., Saskatchewan, Canada

Pier Luigi Buttigieg

Affiliation Alfred-Wegener-Institut, Helmholtz-Zentrum für Polar- und Meeresforschung, Bremerhaven, Germany

James P. Balhoff

Affiliation Renaissance Computing Institute, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States of America

Christopher J. Mungall

Affiliation Environmental Genomics and Systems Biology, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California, United States of America

Deborah L. McGuinness

Affiliation Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, New York, United States of America

Brian J. Stucky

Affiliation Florida Museum of Natural History, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, United States of America

Matthew J. Yoder

Affiliation Illinois Natural History Survey, Champaign, Illinois, United States of America

Melissa A. Haendel

Affiliation Environmental and Molecular Toxicology, Oregon State University, Corvallis, Oregon, United States of America

Competing Interests

I have read the journal's policy and the authors of this manuscript have the following competing interests: Jessica Singer and Robert Warren are employed by Annex Agriculture. They have no consultancies, patents, products in development, or marketed products that form a competing interest. This does not alter our adherence to all PLOS Computational Biology policies on sharing data and materials.