About the Authors

Sara Garamszegi

Affiliation Bioinformatics Program, Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Eric A. Franzosa

Affiliation Department of Biostatistics, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Yu Xia

[email protected]

Affiliation Department of Bioengineering, Faculty of Engineering, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: YX EAF SG. Performed the experiments: YX EAF SG. Analyzed the data: YX EAF SG. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: YX EAF SG. Wrote the paper: YX EAF SG.