About the Authors

Armaghan W. Naik

Affiliation Lane Center for Computational Biology, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Joshua D. Kangas

Affiliation Lane Center for Computational Biology, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Christopher J. Langmead

Affiliation Lane Center for Computational Biology, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Robert F. Murphy

murphy@cmu.edu

Affiliations Lane Center for Computational Biology, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America, Departments of Biological Sciences, Biomedical Engineering and Machine Learning, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America, Freiburg Institute for Advanced Studies and Faculty of Biology, Albert Ludwig University of Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany

Competing Interests

Some of the technology described in this article is included under a pending patent application. There are no further patents, products in development or marketed products to declare. 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: AWN JDK CJL RFM. Performed the experiments: AWN. Analyzed the data: AWN JDK CJL RFM. Wrote the manuscript: AWN RFM.