About the Authors

Elena Zotenko

Affiliation Max-Planck Institute for Informatics, Saarbruecken, Germany

Julian Mestre

Affiliation Max-Planck Institute for Informatics, Saarbruecken, Germany

Dianne P. O'Leary

Affiliations Department of Computer Science, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland, United States of America, Institute for Advanced Computer Studies, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland, United States of America

Teresa M. Przytycka

przytyck@ncbi.nlm.nih.gov

Affiliation National Center of Biotechnology Information, National Library of Medicine, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: EZ TMP. Performed the experiments: EZ. Analyzed the data: EZ DPO TMP. Wrote the paper: EZ. Contributed the algorithm for efficient computation of edge-disjoint path integrity measure: JM. Contributed to designing the experiments and writing the paper: DPO. Participated in writing the paper: TP.