About the Authors

Qian Peng

Affiliation Department of Computer Science and Engineering, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, California, United States of America

Pavel A Pevzner

Affiliation Department of Computer Science and Engineering, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, California, United States of America

Glenn Tesler

To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail: gptesler@ucsd.edu

Affiliation Department of Mathematics, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, California, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

PAP and GT conceived and designed the experiments. QP performed the experiments. QP, PAP, and GT analyzed the data. QP and GT contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools. QP, PAP, and GT wrote the paper.