About the Authors

Lele Hu

Contributed equally to this work with: Lele Hu, Tao Huang

Affiliations Institute of Systems Biology, Shanghai University, Shanghai, China, Department of Chemistry, College of Sciences, Shanghai University, Shanghai, China

Tao Huang

Contributed equally to this work with: Lele Hu, Tao Huang

Affiliations Key Laboratory of Systems Biology, Shanghai Institutes for Biological Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai, China, Shanghai Center for Bioinformation Technology, Shanghai, China

Xiao-Jun Liu

xiaojun.liu@ed.ac.uk (XJL); cai_yud@yahoo.com.cn (YDC)

Affiliation College of Animal Science and Technology, Shihezi University, Shihezi City, Xinjiang, China

Yu-Dong Cai

xiaojun.liu@ed.ac.uk (XJL); cai_yud@yahoo.com.cn (YDC)

Affiliations Institute of Systems Biology, Shanghai University, Shanghai, China, Centre for Computational Systems Biology, Fudan University, Shanghai, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: LH YDC. Performed the experiments: LH TH. Analyzed the data: LH XJL YDC. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: LH XJL. Wrote the paper: LH TH YDC.