About the Authors

Kai Wang

Affiliations Computational Genomics Group, Department of Microbiology, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, United States of America, Center for Applied Genomics, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Jeremy A. Horst

Affiliations Computational Genomics Group, Department of Microbiology, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, United States of America, Department of Oral Biology, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, United States of America

Gong Cheng

Affiliations Computational Genomics Group, Department of Microbiology, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, United States of America, Department of Biochemistry, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, United States of America

David C. Nickle

Affiliation Computational Genomics Group, Department of Microbiology, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, United States of America

Ram Samudrala

ram@compbio.washington.edu

Affiliations Computational Genomics Group, Department of Microbiology, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, United States of America, Department of Oral Biology, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: RS. Performed the experiments: KW. Analyzed the data: KW JAH. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: GC DCN. Wrote the paper: KW.