About the Authors

Wen-Han Yu

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

Han Hu

Affiliations Bioinformatics Graduate Program, Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Center for Anti-inflammatory Therapeutics, School of Dental Medicine, Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Qingde Zhou

Affiliation Center for Anti-inflammatory Therapeutics, School of Dental Medicine, Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Yu Xia

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

Salomon Amar

samar@bu.edu

Affiliations Bioinformatics Graduate Program, Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Center for Anti-inflammatory Therapeutics, School of Dental Medicine, Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: SA. Performed the experiments: W-HY HH QZ. Analyzed the data: W-HY YX SA. Wrote the paper: W-HY SA YX HH.