Application of alignment-free bioinformatics methods to identify an oomycete protein with structural and functional similarity to the bacterial AvrE effector protein

• Devdutta Deb,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Plant Pathology, Physiology and Weed Science, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Virginia, United States of America

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• David Mackey,

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

  Affiliation Departments of Horticulture and Crop Science and Molecular Genetics, Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, United States of America

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• Stephen O. Opiyo ,

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

  * E-mail: opiyo.1@osu.edu (SOO); johnmcd@vt.edu (JMM)

  Affiliation Molecular and Cellular Imaging Center-Columbus, Ohio Agricultural Research and Development Center, Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, United States of America

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• John M. McDowell

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

  * E-mail: opiyo.1@osu.edu (SOO); johnmcd@vt.edu (JMM)

  Affiliation Department of Plant Pathology, Physiology and Weed Science, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Virginia, United States of America

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-9070-4874

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