About the Authors

Kanchana Padmanabhan

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

Kuangyu Wang

Affiliation Bioinformatics Research Center, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, North Carolina, United States of America

Nagiza F. Samatova

Samatova@csc.ncsu.edu

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

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: KP NS. Performed the experiments: KP. Analyzed the data: KP KW. Wrote the paper: KP KW NS. Developed and implemented the methodology: KP. Provided the problem statement, supervised the developement of the computational methodology, and provided suggestions on methodology validation: NS.