About the Authors

R. A. Leo Elworth

Contributed equally to this work with: R. A. Leo Elworth, Christian Diaz

Affiliation Department of Computer Science, Rice University, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Christian Diaz

Contributed equally to this work with: R. A. Leo Elworth, Christian Diaz

Affiliation Department of Computer Science, Rice University, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Jing Yang

Affiliation Department of Microbial Pathogenesis and Immunology, Texas A&M Health Science Center, Bryan, Texas, United States of America

Paul de Figueiredo

Affiliations Department of Microbial Pathogenesis and Immunology, Texas A&M Health Science Center, Bryan, Texas, United States of America, Department of Veterinary Pathobiology, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas, United States of America, Norman Borlaug Center, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas, United States of America

Krista Ternus

‡ These authors contributed equally to the supervision of this work.

Affiliation Signature Science, LLC, Austin, Texas, United States of America

Todd Treangen

treangen@rice.edu

‡ These authors contributed equally to the supervision of this work.

Affiliation Department of Computer Science, Rice University, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Competing Interests

I have read the journal's policy and have the following conflicts: KT is an employee of Signature Science, LLC. Signature Science is a "for profit" company located at located at 8329 N, Mopac Expressway, Austin, Texas. Signature Science, LLC is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Southwest Research Institute. Southwest Research Institute is a "not for profit" located on 6220 Culebra Road, San Antonio, Texas. Signature Science has no patents related to the software and technologies described in this article.