About the Authors

Li-Ching Wu

richard@mail.sybbi.ncu.edu.tw

Affiliations Graduate Institute of System Biology and Bioinformatics, National Central University, Jhongli, Taiwan, Research Center for Biotechnology and Biomedical Engineering, National Central University, Jhongli, Taiwan

Hsin-Hao Chen

Affiliation Graduate Institute of System Biology and Bioinformatics, National Central University, Jhongli, Taiwan

Jorng-Tzong Horng

Affiliations Graduate Institute of System Biology and Bioinformatics, National Central University, Jhongli, Taiwan, Department of Computer Science and Information Engineering, National Central University, Jhongli, Taiwan, Department of Bioinformatics, Asia University, Wu-feng, Taiwan

Chen Lin

Affiliation Graduate Institute of System Biology and Bioinformatics, National Central University, Jhongli, Taiwan

Norden E. Huang

Affiliations Graduate Institute of System Biology and Bioinformatics, National Central University, Jhongli, Taiwan, Research Center for Adaptive Data Analysis, National Central University, Jhongli, Taiwan

Yu-Che Cheng

Affiliation Proteomics Laboratory, Cathay Medical Research Institute, Cathay General Hospital, Xizhi, Taiwan

Kuang-Fu Cheng

Affiliations Graduate Institute of Statistics, National Central University, Jhongli, Taiwan, Graduate Institute of Statistics, China Medical University, Taichung, Taiwan

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: LCW. Performed the experiments: HHC. Analyzed the data: HHC CL. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: JTH CL NEH YCC KFC. Wrote the paper: LCW HHC.