About the Authors

James Robert White

Affiliation Applied Mathematics and Scientific Computation Program, Center for Bioinformatics and Computational Biology, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland, United States of America

Niranjan Nagarajan

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

Mihai Pop

mpop@umiacs.umd.edu

Affiliation Department of Computer Science, Center for Bioinformatics and Computational Biology, 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: JRW NN MP. Performed the experiments: JRW. Analyzed the data: JRW NN MP. Wrote the paper: JRW NN MP.