About the Authors

Rebecca A. Reiss

Contributed equally to this work with: Rebecca A. Reiss, Peter A. Guerra

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

rebecca.reiss@nmt.edu

Affiliations Biology Department, New Mexico Tech, Socorro, New Mexico, United States of America, LifeScience Testing and Analysis, Albuquerque, New Mexico, United States of America

Peter A. Guerra

Contributed equally to this work with: Rebecca A. Reiss, Peter A. Guerra

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Writing – original draft

Affiliation Lynker Corporation, Albuquerque, New Mexico, United States of America

Oleg Makhnin

Roles Formal analysis, Methodology

‡ OM and MK also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliation Mathematics Department, New Mexico Tech, Socorro, New Mexico, United States of America

Matthew Kellom

Roles Data curation, Methodology, Software

‡ OM and MK also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliation Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.