About the Authors

Bobbie-Jo M. Webb-Robertson

bj@pnl.gov

Affiliation Computational Biology and Bioinformatics, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, Washington, United States of America

Lee Ann McCue

Affiliation Computational Biology and Bioinformatics, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, Washington, United States of America

Charles E. Lawrence

Affiliation Department of Applied Mathematics and the Center of Computational Molecular Biology, Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: B-JMW-R CL. Performed the experiments: B-JMW-R. Analyzed the data: B-JMW-R LM CL. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: LM. Wrote the paper: B-JMW-R LM CL.