About the Authors

Jian Qiu

Affiliation Department of Genome Sciences, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, United States of America

William Stafford Noble

noble@gs.washington.edu

Affiliations Department of Genome Sciences, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, United States of America, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: JQ WN. Performed the experiments: JQ. Analyzed the data: JQ. Wrote the paper: JQ WN.