About the Authors

Yuan Zhang

Affiliation Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan, United States of America

Yanni Sun

yannisun@msu.edu

Affiliation Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan, United States of America

James R. Cole

Affiliation Center for Microbial Ecology, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: YZ YS JRC. Performed the experiments: YZ YS JRC. Analyzed the data: YZ YS JRC. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: YZ YS JRC. Wrote the paper: YZ YS JRC.