About the Authors

Michael L. Bittner

Contributed equally to this work with: Michael L. Bittner, Rosana Lopes

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Center for Bioinformatics and Genomic Systems Engineering, Texas A&M Engineering Experiment Station, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX, United States of America, Translational Genomics Research Institute, Phoenix, AZ, United States of America

Rosana Lopes

Contributed equally to this work with: Michael L. Bittner, Rosana Lopes

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

rlopes@tamu.edu (RL); hwilson@cvm.tamu.edu (HWR)

Affiliation Center for Bioinformatics and Genomic Systems Engineering, Texas A&M Engineering Experiment Station, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX, United States of America

Jianping Hua

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Center for Bioinformatics and Genomic Systems Engineering, Texas A&M Engineering Experiment Station, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX, United States of America

Chao Sima

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Center for Bioinformatics and Genomic Systems Engineering, Texas A&M Engineering Experiment Station, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX, United States of America

Aniruddha Datta

Roles Methodology, Resources, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliation Center for Bioinformatics and Genomic Systems Engineering, Texas A&M Engineering Experiment Station, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX, United States of America

Heather Wilson-Robles

Roles Data curation, Methodology, Resources, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

rlopes@tamu.edu (RL); hwilson@cvm.tamu.edu (HWR)

‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliation College of Veterinary Medicine, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared no competing interests exist.