About the Authors

André Yoshiaki Kashiwabara

Affiliation Graduate Program in Informatics, Federal University of Technology - Paraná, Cornélio Procópio, Paraná, Brazil

Ígor Bonadio

Affiliation Computer Science Graduate Program, Universidade de São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil

Vitor Onuchic

Affiliation Bioinformatics Graduate Program, Universidade de São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil

Felipe Amado

Affiliation Computer Science Undergraduate Program, Universidade de São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil

Rafael Mathias

Affiliation Computer Science Graduate Program, Universidade de São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil

Alan Mitchell Durham

aland@usp.br

Affiliation Department of Computer Science, Instituto de Matemática e Estatística, Universidade de São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: AYK AMD. Performed the experiments: AYK. Analyzed the data: AYK AMD. Wrote the paper: AYK AMD. Designed and implemented the PairHMM model and related algorithms: VO. Designed and implemented ProfileHMM and related algorithms: FA RM. Implemented the specificaion parser with error reporting and some algorithms of the GHMM probabilistic model: IB.