About the Authors

Chan Zhou

Current address: Gastrointestinal Unit, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Affiliation Computational Systems Biology Laboratory, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology and Institute of Bioinformatics, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia, United States of America

Fenglou Mao

Affiliation Computational Systems Biology Laboratory, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology and Institute of Bioinformatics, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia, United States of America

Yanbin Yin

Current address: Department of Biological Sciences, Northern Illinois University, DeKalb, Illinois, United States of America

Affiliation Computational Systems Biology Laboratory, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology and Institute of Bioinformatics, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia, United States of America

Jinling Huang

Affiliation Department of Biology, East Carolina University, Greenville, North Carolina, United States of America

Johann Peter Gogarten

Affiliation Department of Molecular and Cell Biology, University of Connecticut, Storrs, Connecticut, United States of America

Ying Xu

xyn@bmb.uga.edu

Affiliations Computational Systems Biology Laboratory, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology and Institute of Bioinformatics, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia, United States of America, College of Computer Science and Technology, Jilin University, Changchun, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: CZ FM. Performed the experiments: CZ. Analyzed the data: CZ FM YY JPG. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: CZ YY JH YX. Wrote the paper: CZ JPG YX. Suggested the need of this work: JH.