About the Authors

Basudev Chowdhury

Contributed equally to this work with: Basudev Chowdhury, Arun Seetharam

Affiliations Department of Biological Sciences, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, 47907, United States of America, Bindley Biosciences Center, Discovery Park, Purdue University, West Lafayette IN, 47907, United States of America

Arun Seetharam

Contributed equally to this work with: Basudev Chowdhury, Arun Seetharam

Affiliation Bioinformatics Core, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, 47907, United States of America

Zhiping Wang

Affiliations Department of Medical and Molecular Genetics, Indiana University School of Medicine Indianapolis, Indianapolis, IN, 46202, United States of America, Center for Computational Biology and Bioinformatics, Indiana University School of Medicine Indianapolis, Indianapolis, IN, 46202, United States of America

Yunlong Liu

Affiliations Department of Medical and Molecular Genetics, Indiana University School of Medicine Indianapolis, Indianapolis, IN, 46202, United States of America, Center for Computational Biology and Bioinformatics, Indiana University School of Medicine Indianapolis, Indianapolis, IN, 46202, United States of America

Amy C. Lossie

Current address: Office of Behavioral and Social Sciences Research, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, 20892, United States of America

Affiliations Bindley Biosciences Center, Discovery Park, Purdue University, West Lafayette IN, 47907, United States of America, Department of Animal Sciences, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, 47907, United States of America

Jyothi Thimmapuram

josephi@purdue.edu (JI); jyothit@purdue.edu (JT)

Affiliation Bioinformatics Core, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, 47907, United States of America

Joseph Irudayaraj

josephi@purdue.edu (JI); jyothit@purdue.edu (JT)

Affiliations Bindley Biosciences Center, Discovery Park, Purdue University, West Lafayette IN, 47907, United States of America, Department of Agriculture and Biological Engineering, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, 47907, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: JI ACL. Performed the experiments: BC. Analyzed the data: AS ZW JT YL. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: AS ZW BC. Wrote the paper: BC AS YL ACL JI.