About the Authors

Muhammad Nazmus Sakib

Affiliation Department of Computer Science & Engineering, University of South Carolina, Columbia, South Carolina, United States of America

Jijun Tang

Affiliation Department of Computer Science & Engineering, University of South Carolina, Columbia, South Carolina, United States of America

W. Jim Zheng

Affiliation Department of Biochemistry, Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, South Carolina, United States of America

Chin-Tser Huang

huangct@cec.sc.edu

Affiliation Department of Computer Science & Engineering, University of South Carolina, Columbia, South Carolina, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: MNS JT C-TH. Performed the experiments: MNS. Analyzed the data: MNS C-TH. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: JT WJZ. Wrote the paper: MNS C-TH. Designed the software used in analysis: MNS. Acquisition of sample data: WJZ.