About the Authors

B. Alex Merrick

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – original draft

merrick@niehs.nih.gov

Affiliation Biomolecular Screening Branch, Division National Toxicology Program, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, Research Triangle Park, North Carolina, United States of America

Justin S. Chang

Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology

Current address: Columbia College, Columbia University, New York City, New York, United States of America

Affiliation Biomolecular Screening Branch, Division National Toxicology Program, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, Research Triangle Park, North Carolina, United States of America

Dhiral P. Phadke

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Software, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Sciome, LLC, Research Triangle Park, North Carolina, United States of America

Meredith A. Bostrom

Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Validation

Affiliation Genomics Laboratory, David H. Murdock Research Institute, Kannapolis, North Carolina, United State of America

Ruchir R. Shah

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Software, Visualization

Affiliation Sciome, LLC, Research Triangle Park, North Carolina, United States of America

Xinguo Wang

Roles Methodology, Supervision, Validation

Affiliation Genomics Laboratory, David H. Murdock Research Institute, Kannapolis, North Carolina, United State of America

Oksana Gordon

Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology

Affiliation Genomics Laboratory, David H. Murdock Research Institute, Kannapolis, North Carolina, United State of America

Garron M. Wright

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology

Affiliation Genomics Laboratory, David H. Murdock Research Institute, Kannapolis, North Carolina, United State of America

Competing Interests

BAM and JSC are employees of the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS), National Institutes of Health (NIH), or the United States Government. The views expressed in this article are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the official policy or position of NIEHS, NIH or the United States Government. MAB, XW, OG and GMW are researchers at the David H. Murdock Research Institute (DHMRI) and worked under NIEHS contract HHSN273201100016C to perform RACE analysis under the direction of BAM and JSC. DPP and RRS are bioinformaticians at Sciome, LLC and worked under NIEHS contract HHSN273201700001C to perform homology data analysis and worked under the direction of BAM and JSC. Neither Sciome, LLC nor DHMRI derive benefits from the publication of this work and had no role in funding of the work. There are no patents, products in development or marketed products to declare. This does not alter our adherence to PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.