About the Authors

Gengqiang Xie

Contributed equally to this work with: Gengqiang Xie, Hongtao Zhang

Affiliations State Key Laboratory of Brain and Cognitive Science, Institute of Biophysics, the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China, Graduate School of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China, Division of Biomedical Informatics, Cincinnati Children's Research Foundation, Cincinnati, Ohio, United States of America

Hongtao Zhang

Contributed equally to this work with: Gengqiang Xie, Hongtao Zhang

Affiliations State Key Laboratory of Brain and Cognitive Science, Institute of Biophysics, the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China, Graduate School of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China

Guiping Du

Affiliations State Key Laboratory of Brain and Cognitive Science, Institute of Biophysics, the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China, Graduate School of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China

Qinglei Huang

Affiliation State Key Laboratory of Brain and Cognitive Science, Institute of Biophysics, the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China

Xuehong Liang

Affiliation State Key Laboratory of Brain and Cognitive Science, Institute of Biophysics, the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China

Jun Ma

rjiao@sun5.ibp.ac.cn (RJ); jun.ma@cchmc.org (JM)

Affiliations Division of Biomedical Informatics, Cincinnati Children's Research Foundation, Cincinnati, Ohio, United States of America, Division of Developmental Biology, Cincinnati Children's Research Foundation, Cincinnati, Ohio, United States of America

Renjie Jiao

rjiao@sun5.ibp.ac.cn (RJ); jun.ma@cchmc.org (JM)

Affiliation State Key Laboratory of Brain and Cognitive Science, Institute of Biophysics, the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: RJ JM GX HZ. Performed the experiments: GX HZ GD QH. Analyzed the data: RJ JM GX HZ. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: XL. Wrote the paper: GX RJ JM.