About the Authors

J Starmer

To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail: jdstarme@ncsu.edu

Affiliation Bioinformatics Program, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, North Carolina, United States of America

A Stomp

Affiliation Department of Forestry, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, North Carolina, United States of America

M Vouk

Affiliation Department of Computer Science, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, North Carolina, United States of America

D Bitzer

Affiliation Department of Computer Science, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, North Carolina, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

JS, AS, MV, and DB conceived and designed the experiments. JS performed the experiments. JS, AS, and DB analyzed the data. JS and AS wrote the paper.