About the Authors

Arshan Nasir

Affiliations Evolutionary Bioinformatics Laboratory, Department of Crop Sciences, University of Illinois, Urbana, Illinois, United States of America, Illinois Informatics Institute, University of Illinois, Urbana, Illinois, United States of America

Kyung Mo Kim

Affiliation Microbial Resource Center, Korea Research Institute of Bioscience and Biotechnology, Daejeon, Korea

Gustavo Caetano-Anollés

gca@illinois.edu

Affiliations Evolutionary Bioinformatics Laboratory, Department of Crop Sciences, University of Illinois, Urbana, Illinois, United States of America, Illinois Informatics Institute, University of Illinois, Urbana, Illinois, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: AN KMK GCA. Performed the experiments: AN KMK GCA. Analyzed the data: AN KMK GCA. Wrote the paper: AN KMK GCA.