About the Authors

Gung-wei Chirn

Contributed equally to this work with: Gung-wei Chirn, Reazur Rahman, Yuliya A. Sytnikova, Jessica A. Matts

Current address: iBioinfo Group LLC, Lexington, Massachusetts, United States of America

Affiliation Department of Biology and Rosenstiel Basic Medical Science Research Center, Brandeis University, Waltham, Massachusetts, United States of America

Reazur Rahman

Contributed equally to this work with: Gung-wei Chirn, Reazur Rahman, Yuliya A. Sytnikova, Jessica A. Matts

Affiliation Department of Biology and Rosenstiel Basic Medical Science Research Center, Brandeis University, Waltham, Massachusetts, United States of America

Yuliya A. Sytnikova

Contributed equally to this work with: Gung-wei Chirn, Reazur Rahman, Yuliya A. Sytnikova, Jessica A. Matts

Affiliation Department of Biology and Rosenstiel Basic Medical Science Research Center, Brandeis University, Waltham, Massachusetts, United States of America

Jessica A. Matts

Contributed equally to this work with: Gung-wei Chirn, Reazur Rahman, Yuliya A. Sytnikova, Jessica A. Matts

Current address: Oklahoma State University, Stillwater, Oklahoma, United States of America

Affiliation Department of Biology and Rosenstiel Basic Medical Science Research Center, Brandeis University, Waltham, Massachusetts, United States of America

Mei Zeng

Current address: Dana Farber Cancer Institute, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Affiliation Department of Biology and Rosenstiel Basic Medical Science Research Center, Brandeis University, Waltham, Massachusetts, United States of America

Daniel Gerlach

Current address: Boehringer Ingelheim, Vienna, Austria

Affiliation Research Institute of Molecular Pathology, Vienna Biocenter, Vienna, Austria

Michael Yu

Current address: University of California at San Diego, San Diego, California, United States of America

Affiliation Mathematics Department and Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America

Bonnie Berger

Affiliation Mathematics Department and Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America

Mayumi Naramura

Affiliation Eppley Institute, University of Nebraska Medical Center, Omaha, Nebraska, United States of America

Benjamin T. Kile

Affiliation The Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research, Parkville, Australia

Nelson C. Lau

nlau@brandeis.edu

Affiliation Department of Biology and Rosenstiel Basic Medical Science Research Center, Brandeis University, Waltham, Massachusetts, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: NCL. Performed the experiments: GwC RR YAS JAM MZ NCL. Analyzed the data: GwC RR YAS DG MY BB NCL. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: MN BTK. Wrote the paper: NCL BB BTK.