About the Authors

Tomasz Neugebauer

tomasz.neugebauer@concordia.ca

Affiliation Concordia University Libraries, Montreal, Quebec, Canada

Eric Bordeleau

Affiliation Département de Biologie, Faculté des Sciences, Université de Sherbrooke, Sherbrooke, Quebec, Canada

Vincent Burrus

Affiliation Département de Biologie, Faculté des Sciences, Université de Sherbrooke, Sherbrooke, Quebec, Canada

Ryszard Brzezinski

Affiliation Département de Biologie, Faculté des Sciences, Université de Sherbrooke, Sherbrooke, Quebec, Canada

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: TN EB VB RB. Performed the experiments: TN EB VB RB. Analyzed the data: TN EB VB RB. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: TN. Wrote the paper: TN EB VB RB. Conceived, designed and implemented the visualization method, developed the software, generated visualizations: TN. Applied the visualization technique to the analysis of bacterial and human chromosomes, suggested improvements to the visualization interface: EB VB RB.