About the Authors

Alexander Churbanov

alexander@big.ac.cn

Affiliation Beijing Institute of Genomics (BIG), Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China

Brook Milligan

Affiliation Biology Department, New Mexico State University, Las Cruces, New Mexico, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: AC BM. Performed the experiments: AC. Analyzed the data: AC BM. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: BM. Wrote the paper: AC. Designed the software used in analysis: AC.