About the Authors

Oren Ish-Am

ishamor@gmail.com (OIA); eyruppin@gmail.com (ER)

Affiliation The Blavatnik School of Computer Science, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel

David M. Kristensen

Affiliation National Center for Biotechnology Information, National Library of Medicine, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Eytan Ruppin

ishamor@gmail.com (OIA); eyruppin@gmail.com (ER)

Affiliations The Blavatnik School of Computer Science, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel, The Sackler School of Medicine, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel, Dept. of Computer Science and the Center for Bioinformatics & Computational Biology, the University of Maryland, Maryland, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: OIA ER. Performed the experiments: OIA. Analyzed the data: OIA. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: OIA DK. Wrote the paper: OIA ER. Analysis of Evolutionary Conservation data: DK. Extraction of bacterial evolutionary conservation scores: DK.