About the Authors

Ananthan Nambiar

Contributed equally to this work with: Ananthan Nambiar, Tobias Rubel

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Software, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Department of Bioengineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois, United States of America, Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois, United States of America

Tobias Rubel

Contributed equally to this work with: Ananthan Nambiar, Tobias Rubel

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

Affiliations Department of Philosophy, Reed College, Portland, Oregon, United States of America, Department of Biology, Reed College, Portland, Oregon, United States of America

James McCaull

Roles Investigation, Software, Visualization

Affiliation Department of Computer Science, Reed College, Portland, Oregon, United States of America

Jon deVries

Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Software, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Biology, Reed College, Portland, Oregon, United States of America

Mark Bedau

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

mab@reed.edu

Affiliation Department of Philosophy, Reed College, Portland, Oregon, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.