About the Authors

Shaun Mahony

Contributed equally to this work with: Shaun Mahony, Matthew D. Edwards

mahony@psu.edu (SM); dkg@mit.edu (DKG)

Affiliation Center for Eukaryotic Gene Regulation, Department of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Matthew D. Edwards

Contributed equally to this work with: Shaun Mahony, Matthew D. Edwards

Affiliation Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America

Esteban O. Mazzoni

Affiliation Department of Biology, New York University, New York, New York, United States of America

Richard I. Sherwood

Affiliation Division of Genetics, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Akshay Kakumanu

Affiliation Center for Eukaryotic Gene Regulation, Department of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Carolyn A. Morrison

Affiliation Departments of Pathology and Cell Biology, Neurology, and Neuroscience, Center for Motor Neuron Biology and Disease, Columbia Stem Cell Initiative, Columbia University Medical Center, New York, New York, United States of America

Hynek Wichterle

Affiliation Departments of Pathology and Cell Biology, Neurology, and Neuroscience, Center for Motor Neuron Biology and Disease, Columbia Stem Cell Initiative, Columbia University Medical Center, New York, New York, United States of America

David K. Gifford

mahony@psu.edu (SM); dkg@mit.edu (DKG)

Affiliation Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: SM MDE EOM RIS HW DKG. Performed the experiments: EOM RIS CAM. Analyzed the data: SM MDE AK. Wrote the paper: SM MDE DKG. Designed and implemented software: SM MDE.