About the Authors

Steven L. Salzberg

salzberg@umd.edu

Affiliation Center for Bioinformatics and Computational Biology, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland, United States of America

Daniel D. Sommer

Affiliation Center for Bioinformatics and Computational Biology, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland, United States of America

Daniela Puiu

Affiliation Center for Bioinformatics and Computational Biology, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland, United States of America

Vincent T. Lee

Affiliation Department of Cell Biology and Molecular Genetics, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: SLS. Performed the experiments: DDS DP. Analyzed the data: SLS DDS DP VTL. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: VTL. Wrote the paper: SLS VTL.