About the Authors

Lei Li

Contributed equally to this work with: Lei Li, Xiangfeng Wang, Rajkumar Sasidharan

Affiliation Department of Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, United States of America

Xiangfeng Wang

Contributed equally to this work with: Lei Li, Xiangfeng Wang, Rajkumar Sasidharan

Affiliations Department of Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, United States of America, National Institute of Biological Sciences, Zhongguancun Life Science Park, Beijing, China, Peking-Yale Joint Research Center of Plant Molecular Genetics and Agrobiotechnology, College of Life Sciences, Peking University, Beijing, China

Rajkumar Sasidharan

Contributed equally to this work with: Lei Li, Xiangfeng Wang, Rajkumar Sasidharan

Affiliation Department of Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, United States of America

Viktor Stolc

Affiliations Department of Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, United States of America, Genome Research Facility, NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, California, United States of America

Wei Deng

Affiliations National Institute of Biological Sciences, Zhongguancun Life Science Park, Beijing, China, Bioinformatics Laboratory, Institute of Biophysics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China

Hang He

Affiliations National Institute of Biological Sciences, Zhongguancun Life Science Park, Beijing, China, Bioinformatics Laboratory, Institute of Biophysics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China

Jan Korbel

Affiliation Department of Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, United States of America

Xuewei Chen

Affiliation Department of Plant Pathology, University of California, Davis, California, United States of America

Waraporn Tongprasit

Affiliation Eloret Corporation, Sunnyvale, California, United States of America

Pamela Ronald

Affiliation Department of Plant Pathology, University of California, Davis, California, United States of America

Runsheng Chen

Affiliation Bioinformatics Laboratory, Institute of Biophysics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China

Mark Gerstein

Affiliation Department of Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, United States of America

Xing Wang Deng

To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail: xingwang.deng@yale.edu

Affiliation Department of Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: MG XD LL. Performed the experiments: LL. Analyzed the data: VS WT LL XW RS HH JK. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: PR RC VS WD XC. Wrote the paper: XD LL.