About the Authors

Haibin Liu

Haibin.Liu@nih.gov

Affiliation National Center for Biotechnology Information, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Lawrence Hunter

Affiliation University of Colorado School of Medicine, Aurora, Colorado, United States of America

Vlado Kešelj

Affiliation Faculty of Computer Science, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada

Karin Verspoor

Affiliation National ICT Australia, Victoria Research Lab, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Contributed to the preparation of the manuscript: HL LH VK KV. Conceived and designed the experiments: HL KV. Performed the experiments: HL. Analyzed the data: HL LH VK. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: LH. Wrote the paper: HL.