About the Authors

Tatiana V. Karpinets

karpinetstv@ornl.gov

Affiliations Computational Biology Institute, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, Tennessee, United States of America, Computer Science and Mathematics Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, Tennessee, United States of America, Department of Plant Sciences, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Tennessee, United States of America

Dale A. Pelletier

Affiliation Biosciences Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, Tennessee, United States of America

Chongle Pan

Affiliations Computer Science and Mathematics Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, Tennessee, United States of America, Chemical Sciences Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, Tennessee, United States of America

Edward C. Uberbacher

Affiliation Biosciences Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, Tennessee, United States of America

Galina V. Melnichenko

Affiliation Biosystems Engineering & Soil Science Department, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Tennessee, United States of America

Robert L. Hettich

Affiliation Chemical Sciences Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, Tennessee, United States of America

Nagiza F. Samatova

Affiliations Computer Science and Mathematics Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, Tennessee, United States of America, Department of Computer Science, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, North Carolina, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: TVK DAP CP RLH NFS. Performed the experiments: DAP CP GVM. Analyzed the data: TVK. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: ECU RLH. Wrote the paper: TVK ECU NFS.