About the Authors

Deeptak Verma

Affiliation Department of Bioinformatics and Genomics, University of North Carolina at Charlotte, Charlotte, North Carolina, United States of America

Donald J. Jacobs

djacobs1@uncc.edu (DJJ); drlivesa@uncc.edu (DRL)

Affiliation Department of Physics and Optical Science, University of North Carolina at Charlotte, Charlotte, North Carolina, United States of America

Dennis R. Livesay

djacobs1@uncc.edu (DJJ); drlivesa@uncc.edu (DRL)

Affiliation Department of Bioinformatics and Genomics, University of North Carolina at Charlotte, Charlotte, North Carolina, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: DRL DJJ. Performed the experiments: DV. Analyzed the data: DV DRL DJJ. Wrote the paper: DRL DJJ.