About the Authors

Xin He

Affiliation Department of Computer Science, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Champaign, Illinois, United States of America

Chieh-Chun Chen

Affiliation Department of Bioengineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Champaign, Illinois, United States of America

Feng Hong

Affiliation Department of Statistics, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Champaign, Illinois, United States of America

Fang Fang

Affiliation Gene Regulation Laboratory, Genome Institute of Singapore, Singapore, Singapore

Saurabh Sinha

Affiliation Department of Computer Science, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Champaign, Illinois, United States of America

Huck-Hui Ng

Affiliation Gene Regulation Laboratory, Genome Institute of Singapore, Singapore, Singapore

Sheng Zhong

szhong@illinois.edu

Affiliations Department of Computer Science, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Champaign, Illinois, United States of America, Department of Bioengineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Champaign, Illinois, United States of America, Department of Statistics, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Champaign, Illinois, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: XH SZ. Performed the experiments: XH CCC FH FF HHN. Analyzed the data: XH CCC FH SZ. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: XH CCC SS HHN. Wrote the paper: XH SS SZ.