About the Authors

Qiong Cheng

Affiliation Department of Computer Science, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois, United States of America

Majid Kazemian

Affiliation Department of Computer Science, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois, United States of America

Hannah Pham

Affiliation Program in Gene Function and Expression, University of Massachusetts Medical School, Worcester, Massachusetts, United States of America

Charles Blatti

Affiliation Department of Computer Science, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois, United States of America

Susan E. Celniker

Affiliation Department of Genome Dynamics, Berkeley Drosophila Genome Project, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California, United States of America

Scot A. Wolfe

Affiliations Program in Gene Function and Expression, University of Massachusetts Medical School, Worcester, Massachusetts, United States of America, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Pharmacology, University of Massachusetts Medical School, Worcester, Massachusetts, United States of America

Michael H. Brodsky

Michael.brodsky@umassmed.edu (MHB); sinhas@illinois.edu (SS)

Affiliations Program in Gene Function and Expression, University of Massachusetts Medical School, Worcester, Massachusetts, United States of America, Department of Molecular Medicine, University of Massachusetts Medical School, Worcester, Massachusetts, United States of America

Saurabh Sinha

Michael.brodsky@umassmed.edu (MHB); sinhas@illinois.edu (SS)

Affiliations Department of Computer Science, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois, United States of America, Institute of Genomic Biology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: QC SS MHB. Performed the experiments: QC SS HP MHB. Analyzed the data: QC SS MHB. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: SEC SAW MHB MK CB. Wrote the paper: SS MHB SAW QC MK.