About the Authors

Stefano Lonardi

stelo@cs.ucr.edu

Affiliation Department of Computer Science and Engineering, University of California, Riverside, California, United States of America

Denisa Duma

Affiliation Department of Computer Science and Engineering, University of California, Riverside, California, United States of America

Matthew Alpert

Affiliation Department of Computer Science and Engineering, University of California, Riverside, California, United States of America

Francesca Cordero

Affiliation Department of Computer Science, Università di Torino, Torino, Italy

Marco Beccuti

Affiliation Department of Computer Science, Università di Torino, Torino, Italy

Prasanna R. Bhat

Affiliations Department of Botany and Plant Sciences, University of California, Riverside, California, United States of America, Monsanto Research Centre, Bangalore, India

Yonghui Wu

Affiliations Department of Computer Science and Engineering, University of California, Riverside, California, United States of America, Google, Inc., Mountain View, California, United States of America

Gianfranco Ciardo

Affiliation Department of Computer Science and Engineering, University of California, Riverside, California, United States of America

Burair Alsaihati

Affiliations Department of Computer Science and Engineering, University of California, Riverside, California, United States of America, Joint Center for Genomic Research, King Abdulaziz City for Science and Technology, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

Yaqin Ma

Affiliation Department of Botany and Plant Sciences, University of California, Riverside, California, United States of America

Steve Wanamaker

Affiliation Department of Botany and Plant Sciences, University of California, Riverside, California, United States of America

Josh Resnik

Affiliation Department of Botany and Plant Sciences, University of California, Riverside, California, United States of America

Serdar Bozdag

Affiliation Department of Mathematics, Statistics and Computer Science, Marquette University, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, United States of America

Ming-Cheng Luo

Affiliation Department of Plant Sciences, University of California, Davis, California, United States of America

Timothy J. Close

Affiliation Department of Botany and Plant Sciences, University of California, Riverside, California, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: SL TJC. Performed the experiments: PRB YM SW JR MCL TJC. Analyzed the data: SL DD MA FC MB YW GC BA SW SB TJC. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: FC MB PRB YW GC BA YM SW JR SB MCL TJC. Wrote the paper: SL TJC.