About the Authors

Qi Sun

Roles Methodology, Software, Visualization, Writing – original draft

‡ These authors share first authorship on this work

Affiliation Cornell Institute of Biotechnology, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, United States of America

Ali Nematbakhsh

Roles Data curation, Methodology, Software, Visualization, Writing – original draft

‡ These authors share first authorship on this work

Affiliation Cornell Institute of Biotechnology, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, United States of America

Prashant K. Kuntala

Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Software, Visualization, Writing – original draft

Affiliation Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Gretta Kellogg

Roles Funding acquisition, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – original draft

Affiliation Cornell Institute of Biotechnology, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, United States of America

B. Franklin Pugh

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Supervision

Affiliation Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics, Cornell University, New York, United States of America

William K. M. Lai

Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Software, Supervision, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

wkl29@cornell.edu

Affiliations Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics, Cornell University, New York, United States of America, Department of Computational Biology, Cornell University, New York, United States of America

Competing Interests

I have read the journal’s policy and the authors of this manuscript have the following competing interests: BFP has a financial interest in Peconic, LLC, which utilizes the ChIP-exo technology mentioned in this study and could potentially benefit from the outcomes of this research.