About the Authors

Jiayi Sun

Contributed equally to this work with: Jiayi Sun, J. Cristobal Vera

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois, United States of America

J. Cristobal Vera

Contributed equally to this work with: Jiayi Sun, J. Cristobal Vera

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

Affiliations Department of Microbiology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois, United States of America, Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois, United States of America

Jenny Drnevich

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

Affiliation High-Performance Biological Computing at the Roy J. Carver Biotechnology Center, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois, United States of America

Yen Ting Lin

Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Visualization

Affiliation Information Sciences Group, Computer, Computational and Statistical Sciences DIvision (CCS-3), Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, New Mexico, United States of America

Ruian Ke

Roles Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Supervision, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation T-6, Theoretical Biology and Biophysics, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, New Mexico, United States of America

Christopher B. Brooke

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

cbrooke@illinois.edu

Affiliations Department of Microbiology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois, United States of America, Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.