About the Authors

Alexander Kawrykow

Contributed equally to this work with: Alexander Kawrykow, Gary Roumanis

Affiliation School of Computer Science and McGill Centre for Bioinformatics, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada

Gary Roumanis

Contributed equally to this work with: Alexander Kawrykow, Gary Roumanis

Affiliation School of Computer Science and McGill Centre for Bioinformatics, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada

Alfred Kam

Affiliation School of Computer Science and McGill Centre for Bioinformatics, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada

Daniel Kwak

Affiliation School of Computer Science and McGill Centre for Bioinformatics, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada

Clarence Leung

Affiliation School of Computer Science and McGill Centre for Bioinformatics, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada

Chu Wu

Affiliation School of Computer Science and McGill Centre for Bioinformatics, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada

Eleyine Zarour

Affiliation School of Computer Science and McGill Centre for Bioinformatics, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada

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Luis Sarmenta

Affiliation Nokia Research Center, Palo Alto, California, United States of America

Mathieu Blanchette

blanchem@mcb.mcgill.ca (MB); jeromew@cs.mcgill.ca (JW)

Affiliation School of Computer Science and McGill Centre for Bioinformatics, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada

Jérôme Waldispühl

blanchem@mcb.mcgill.ca (MB); jeromew@cs.mcgill.ca (JW)

Affiliation School of Computer Science and McGill Centre for Bioinformatics, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada

Competing Interests

Luis Sarmenta is an employee of Nokia and Jerome Waldispuhl received a donation from Nokia. This does not alter the author's adherence to all the PLoS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: A. Kawrykow GR LS MB JW. Performed the experiments: A. Kawrykow GR A. Kam DK CL CW EZ. Analyzed the data: A. Kawrykow GR LS MB JW. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: A. Kawrykow GR A. Kam DK CL CW EZ LS MB JW. Wrote the paper: MB JW.