About the Authors

Sabah Ul-Hasan

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

bysabahulhasan@gmail.com(SUH); cnobile@ucmerced.edu(CJN)

Affiliations Department of Molecular and Cell Biology, School of Natural Sciences, University of California Merced, Merced, CA, United States of America, Quantitative and Systems Biology Graduate Program, University of California Merced, Merced, CA, United States of America

Robert M. Bowers

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Methodology, Resources, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Energy, Joint Genome Institute, Walnut Creek, CA, United States of America

Andrea Figueroa-Montiel

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Biomedical Innovation, Centro de Investigación Científica y de Educación Superior de Ensenada (CICESE), Ensenada, Baja California, México

Alexei F. Licea-Navarro

Roles Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Biomedical Innovation, Centro de Investigación Científica y de Educación Superior de Ensenada (CICESE), Ensenada, Baja California, México

J. Michael Beman

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Life and Environmental Sciences, School of Natural Sciences, University of California Merced, Merced, CA, United States of America

Tanja Woyke

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Department of Molecular and Cell Biology, School of Natural Sciences, University of California Merced, Merced, CA, United States of America, Department of Energy, Joint Genome Institute, Walnut Creek, CA, United States of America

Clarissa J. Nobile

Roles Funding acquisition, Investigation, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

bysabahulhasan@gmail.com(SUH); cnobile@ucmerced.edu(CJN)

Affiliation Department of Molecular and Cell Biology, School of Natural Sciences, University of California Merced, Merced, CA, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.