About the Authors

Tatiana P. Flanagan

tpaz@unm.edu

Affiliations Department of Biology, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, New Mexico, United States of America, Department of Computer Science, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, New Mexico, United States of America

Kenneth Letendre

Affiliations Department of Biology, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, New Mexico, United States of America, Department of Computer Science, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, New Mexico, United States of America

William R. Burnside

Affiliation Department of Biology, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, New Mexico, United States of America

G. Matthew Fricke

Affiliation Department of Computer Science, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, New Mexico, United States of America

Melanie E. Moses

Affiliations Department of Biology, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, New Mexico, United States of America, Department of Computer Science, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, New Mexico, United States of America, The Santa Fe Institute, Santa Fe, New Mexico, United States of America

Competing Interests

This research has been funded in part by a gift from Microsoft Research (research.microsoft.com). 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: TF KL WB GF MM. Performed the experiments: TF KL WB GF MM. Analyzed the data: TF KL MM. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: TF KL WB GF MM. Wrote the paper: TF KL WB GF MM.