About the Authors

Yungok Ihm

yihm@spring8.or.jp

Affiliation Department of Physics and Astronomy, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa, United States of America

Wendy O. Sparks

Affiliation Department of Veterinary Microbiology and Preventive Medicine, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa, United States of America

Jae-Hyung Lee

Affiliation Bioinformatics and Computational Biology Program, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa, United States of America

Haibo Cao

Affiliation Department of Physics and Astronomy, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa, United States of America

Susan Carpenter

Affiliations Department of Veterinary Microbiology and Preventive Medicine, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa, United States of America, Bioinformatics and Computational Biology Program, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa, United States of America, Department of Veterinary Microbiology and Pathology, Washington State University, Pullman, Washington, United States of America

Cai-Zhuang Wang

Affiliation Ames Laboratory–U. S. DOE., Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa, United States of America

Kai-Ming Ho

Affiliations Department of Physics and Astronomy, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa, United States of America, Bioinformatics and Computational Biology Program, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa, United States of America, Ames Laboratory–U. S. DOE., Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa, United States of America

Drena Dobbs

Affiliations Bioinformatics and Computational Biology Program, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa, United States of America, Department of Genetics, Development and Cell Biology, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: YI SC KMH DD. Performed the experiments: YI WOS JHL. Analyzed the data: YI WOS JHL HC SC CZW KMH DD. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: YI HC SC CZW KMH. Wrote the paper: YI WOS SC DD.