About the Authors

Todd J. Treangen

treangent@nbacc.net

Affiliation National Biodefense Analysis and Countermeasures Center, Frederick, Maryland, United States of America

George Schoeler

Current address: Bureau of Medicine & Surgery, Falls Church, Virginia, United States of America

Affiliation Department of Entomology, U. S. Naval Medical Research Unit No. 6, Callao, Peru

Adam M. Phillippy

Current address: Genome Informatics Section, Computational and Statistical Genomics Branch, National Human Genome Research Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Affiliation National Biodefense Analysis and Countermeasures Center, Frederick, Maryland, United States of America

Nicholas H. Bergman

Affiliation National Biodefense Analysis and Countermeasures Center, Frederick, Maryland, United States of America

Michael J. Turell

Affiliation Virology Division, United States Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases, Fort Detrick, Maryland, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: MJT NHB. Performed the experiments: TJT MJT. Analyzed the data: AMP TJT MJT. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: GS TJT NHB. Wrote the paper: TJT GS AMP NHB MJT.