About the Authors

David C. Haws

Affiliation Computational Biology Center, IBM T. J. Watson Research, Yorktown Heights, NY 10598, United States of America

Irina Rish

rish@us.ibm.com

Affiliation Computational Biology Center, IBM T. J. Watson Research, Yorktown Heights, NY 10598, United States of America

Simon Teyssedre

Affiliation Limagrain Europe, Centre de Recherche de Chappes, CS 3911, Route d’Ennezat, Chappes 63720, France

Dan He

Affiliation Computational Biology Center, IBM T. J. Watson Research, Yorktown Heights, NY 10598, United States of America

Aurelie C. Lozano

Affiliation Business Analytics and Mathematical Sciences Department, IBM T. J. Watson Research, Yorktown Heights, NY 10598, United States of America

Prabhanjan Kambadur

Current address: Bloomberg L.P.

Affiliation Business Analytics and Mathematical Sciences Department, IBM T. J. Watson Research, Yorktown Heights, NY 10598, United States of America

Zivan Karaman

Affiliation Limagrain Europe, Centre de Recherche de Chappes, CS 3911, Route d’Ennezat, Chappes 63720, France

Laxmi Parida

Affiliation Computational Biology Center, IBM T. J. Watson Research, Yorktown Heights, NY 10598, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have the following interests: LP, DCH, IR, DH, ACL, and PK are employed by IBM T. J. Watson Research. ST and ZK are employed by Limagrain Europe. There are no 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: LP ZK. Performed the experiments: DCH IR ST DH ACL PK. Analyzed the data: DCH IR ST DH ACL PK. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: DCH IR ST DH ACL PK ZK. Wrote the paper: DCH IR ST DH ACL PK ZK LP.