About the Authors

Sourabh Dhingra

Affiliation Department of Biological Sciences, Northern Illinois University, DeKalb, Illinois, United States of America

Abigail L. Lind

Affiliation Department of Biomedical Informatics, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, Tennessee, United States of America

Hsiao-Ching Lin

Affiliation Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

Yi Tang

Affiliations Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States of America, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

Antonis Rokas

Affiliations Department of Biomedical Informatics, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, Tennessee, United States of America, Department of Biological Sciences, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee, United States of America

Ana M. Calvo

amcalvo@niu.edu

Affiliation Department of Biological Sciences, Northern Illinois University, DeKalb, Illinois, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: AMC AR YT SD. Performed the experiments: SD ALL HCL. Analyzed the data: AMC SD AR ALL YT HCL. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: AMC AR YT. Wrote the manuscript: AMC SD AR YT ALL HCL.