About the Authors

Evan Senter

Affiliation Biology Department, Boston College, Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts, United States of America

Saad Sheikh

Affiliation Computer Science Department, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, United States of America

Ivan Dotu

Affiliation Biology Department, Boston College, Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts, United States of America

Yann Ponty

Affiliation Laboratoire d'Informatique, Ecole Polytechnique, Palaiseau, France

Peter Clote

clote@bc.edu

Affiliation Biology Department, Boston College, Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: PC YP. Performed the experiments: PC ES SS. Analyzed the data: PC ES. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: PC ID ES SS. Wrote the paper: PC. Interpolation idea: YP. Idea for handling numerical instability (FFT, scaling): PC. Designed the software used in analysis: PC ES SS.