About the Authors

David A. Bohan

weed.dynamics@gmail.com

Affiliations Rothamsted Research, West Common, Harpenden, Herts, United Kingdom, INRA, UMR 1210 Biologie et Gestion des Adventices, BP 86510, Dijon, France

Geoffrey Caron-Lormier

Affiliation Rothamsted Research, West Common, Harpenden, Herts, United Kingdom

Stephen Muggleton

Affiliation Computational Bioinformatics Laboratory, Department of Computing, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom

Alan Raybould

Affiliation Syngenta, Jealott's Hill International Research Centre, Bracknell, Berks, United Kingdom

Alireza Tamaddoni-Nezhad

Affiliation Computational Bioinformatics Laboratory, Department of Computing, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom

Competing Interests

The authors have read the journal's policy and have the following conflicts: A Syngenta employee, Prof Alan Raybould, appears on the paper and played a purely academic role in the development of this paper. This does not alter the authors' adherence to all the PLoS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: DAB GC-L AT-N SM. Performed the experiments: DAB AT-N. Analyzed the data: DAB GC-L AT-N SM AR. Wrote the paper: DAB GC-L AT-N SM AR. Designed the software used in analysis: AT-N SM.