About the Authors

Gabriel A. Al-Ghalith

Affiliation Biomedical Informatics and Computational Biology, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States of America

Emmanuel Montassier

Affiliations University of Nantes, Nantes, France, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States of America

Henry N. Ward

Affiliation Lawrence University, Appleton, Wisconsin, United States of America

Dan Knights

dknights@umn.edu

Affiliations Biomedical Informatics and Computational Biology, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States of America, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: GAA DK. Performed the experiments: GAA EM DK. Analyzed the data: GAA EM DK. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: GAA HNW DK. Wrote the paper: GAA EM DK.