About the Authors

Aleksey V. Zimin

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

alekseyz@jhu.edu

Affiliations Department of Biomedical Engineering, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America, Center for Computational Biology, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

Steven L. Salzberg

Roles Funding acquisition, Investigation, Software, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Department of Biomedical Engineering, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America, Center for Computational Biology, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America, Department of Computer Science, Whiting School of Engineering, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America, Department of Biostatistics, Bloomberg School of Public Health, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.