About the Authors

Mary Qu Yang

mqyang@ualr.edu (MQY); elnitski@mail.nih.gov (LE)

Affiliation MidSouth Bioinformatics Center and Joint Bioinformatics Ph.D. Program, University of Arkansas at Little Rock and University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, 2801 S. University Avenue, Little Rock, Arkansas, 72204, United States of America

Laura Elnitski

mqyang@ualr.edu (MQY); elnitski@mail.nih.gov (LE)

Affiliation National Human Genome Research Institute, National Institutes of Health, Rockville, MD, 20852, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceptualization: MQY. Data curation: MQY. Formal analysis: MQY. Funding acquisition: MQY LE. Investigation: MQY LE. Methodology: MQY LE. Project administration: MQY LE. Resources: MQY LE. Software: MQY. Supervision: MQY LE. Validation: MQY LE. Visualization: MQY LE. Writing – original draft: MQY. Writing – review & editing: MQY LE.