About the Authors

Yutao Fu

Affiliation Bioinformatics Program, Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Manisha Sinha

Affiliations Interdisciplinary Graduate Program, University of Massachusetts Medical School, Worcester, Massachusetts, United States of America, Program in Molecular Medicine, University of Massachusetts Medical School, Worcester, Massachusetts, United States of America

Craig L. Peterson

Affiliation Program in Molecular Medicine, University of Massachusetts Medical School, Worcester, Massachusetts, United States of America

Zhiping Weng

zhiping.weng@umassmed.edu

Affiliations Bioinformatics Program, Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Program in Bioinformatics and Integrative Biology, University of Massachusetts Medical School, Worcester, Massachusetts, United States of America, Department of Biomedical Engineering, Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: YF ZW. Analyzed the data: YF. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: CLP ZW. Wrote the paper: YF ZW. Performed the computational analysis: YF. Performed the in vitro nucleosome reconstitution experiment: MS CLP.