About the Authors
- Can Alkan
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Affiliation Department of Genome Sciences, University of Washington School of Medicine, Seattle, Washington, United States of America
- Mario Ventura
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Affiliation Department of Genetics and Microbiology, University of Bari, Bari, Italy
- Nicoletta Archidiacono
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Affiliation Department of Genetics and Microbiology, University of Bari, Bari, Italy
- Mariano Rocchi
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Affiliation Department of Genetics and Microbiology, University of Bari, Bari, Italy
- S. Cenk Sahinalp
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Affiliation Department of Computing Science, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada
- Evan E Eichler
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*To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail: eee@gs.washington.edu
Affiliations Department of Genome Sciences, University of Washington School of Medicine, Seattle, Washington, United States of America , Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Seattle, Washington, United States of America
Competing Interests
The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.
Author Contributions
CA and MV conceived and designed the experiments and performed the experiments. CA and EEE analyzed the data. MV, NA, and MR contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools. CA and EEE wrote the paper. SCS contributed to pairwise sequence alignment algorithm speed-up.