About the Authors

David R. Riley

Contributed equally to this work with: David R. Riley, Karsten B. Sieber

Affiliation Institute for Genome Sciences, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

Karsten B. Sieber

Contributed equally to this work with: David R. Riley, Karsten B. Sieber

Affiliation Institute for Genome Sciences, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

Kelly M. Robinson

Affiliation Institute for Genome Sciences, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

James Robert White

Affiliation Institute for Genome Sciences, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

Ashwinkumar Ganesan

Affiliations Institute for Genome Sciences, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America, Computer Science and Electrical Engineering Department, University of Maryland Baltimore County, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

Syrus Nourbakhsh

Affiliations Institute for Genome Sciences, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America, University of Maryland College Park, College Park, Maryland, United States of America

Julie C. Dunning Hotopp

jdhotopp@som.umaryland.edu

Affiliations Institute for Genome Sciences, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America, Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America, Greenebaum Cancer Center, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: DRR KBS KMR JRW AG SN JCDH. Performed the experiments: DRR KBS KMR JRW AG SN JCDH. Analyzed the data: DRR KBS KMR JRW AG SN JCDH. Wrote the paper: DRR KBS KMR JCDH.