About the Authors

Tongwu Zhang

Affiliations Joint Center for Genomics Research (JCGR), King Abdulaziz City for Science and Technology and Chinese Academy of Sciences, Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and Beijing, China, CAS Key Laboratory of Genome Sciences and Information, Beijing Institute of Genomics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China, James D. Watson Institute of Genome Sciences, College of Life Science, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China

Songnian Hu

Affiliations Joint Center for Genomics Research (JCGR), King Abdulaziz City for Science and Technology and Chinese Academy of Sciences, Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and Beijing, China, CAS Key Laboratory of Genome Sciences and Information, Beijing Institute of Genomics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China, James D. Watson Institute of Genome Sciences, College of Life Science, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China

Guangyu Zhang

Affiliations Joint Center for Genomics Research (JCGR), King Abdulaziz City for Science and Technology and Chinese Academy of Sciences, Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and Beijing, China, CAS Key Laboratory of Genome Sciences and Information, Beijing Institute of Genomics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China

Linlin Pan

Affiliations Joint Center for Genomics Research (JCGR), King Abdulaziz City for Science and Technology and Chinese Academy of Sciences, Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and Beijing, China, CAS Key Laboratory of Genome Sciences and Information, Beijing Institute of Genomics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China

Xiaowei Zhang

zhangxw@big.ac.cn (XZ); imssallem@kacst.edu.sa (IA); junyu@big.ac.cn (JY)

Affiliations Joint Center for Genomics Research (JCGR), King Abdulaziz City for Science and Technology and Chinese Academy of Sciences, Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and Beijing, China, CAS Key Laboratory of Genome Sciences and Information, Beijing Institute of Genomics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China

Ibrahim S. Al-Mssallem

zhangxw@big.ac.cn (XZ); imssallem@kacst.edu.sa (IA); junyu@big.ac.cn (JY)

Affiliations Joint Center for Genomics Research (JCGR), King Abdulaziz City for Science and Technology and Chinese Academy of Sciences, Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and Beijing, China, Department of Biotechnology, College of Agriculture and Food Sciences, King Faisal University, AI-Hssa, Hofuf, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia

Jun Yu

zhangxw@big.ac.cn (XZ); imssallem@kacst.edu.sa (IA); junyu@big.ac.cn (JY)

Affiliations Joint Center for Genomics Research (JCGR), King Abdulaziz City for Science and Technology and Chinese Academy of Sciences, Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and Beijing, China, CAS Key Laboratory of Genome Sciences and Information, Beijing Institute of Genomics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China, James D. Watson Institute of Genome Sciences, College of Life Science, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: TZ SH IA JY. Performed the experiments: TZ XZ. Analyzed the data: TZ GZ LP JY. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: TZ XZ. Wrote the paper: TZ SH IA JY.