About the Authors

Juan Cui

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

Fan Li

Affiliation Department of Pathogenobiology, Jilin University, Changchun, Jilin, China

Guoqing Wang

Affiliation Department of Pathogenobiology, Jilin University, Changchun, Jilin, China

Xuedong Fang

Affiliation The Second Affiliated Hospital, Jilin University, Changchun, Jilin, China

J. David Puett

Affiliation Computational Systems Biology Laboratory, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, and Institute of Bioinformatics, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia, 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, Jilin, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: JC YX. Performed the experiments: JC GW. Analyzed the data: JC. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: XF DP. Wrote the paper: JC YX.