About the Authors

Brian G. Pierce

Affiliation Program in Bioinformatics and Integrative Biology, University of Massachusetts Medical School, Worcester, Massachusetts, United States of America

Yuichiro Hourai

Affiliation Computational Biology Research Center (CBRC), National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST), Tokyo, Japan

Zhiping Weng

zhiping.weng@umassmed.edu

Affiliation Program in Bioinformatics and Integrative Biology, University of Massachusetts Medical School, Worcester, Massachusetts, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: BGP YH ZW. Performed the experiments: BGP. Analyzed the data: BGP. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: YH. Wrote the paper: BGP ZW.