About the Authors

Qing Zhang

Affiliation School of Life Sciences and the State Key Laboratory of Agrobiotechnology, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shatin, Hong Kong SAR, China

Xiaodan Fan

Affiliation Department of Statistics, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shatin, Hong Kong SAR, China

Yejun Wang

Affiliation School of Life Sciences and the State Key Laboratory of Agrobiotechnology, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shatin, Hong Kong SAR, China

Mingan Sun

Affiliation School of Life Sciences and the State Key Laboratory of Agrobiotechnology, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shatin, Hong Kong SAR, China

Samuel S. M. Sun

Affiliation School of Life Sciences and the State Key Laboratory of Agrobiotechnology, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shatin, Hong Kong SAR, China

Dianjing Guo

djguo@cuhk.edu.hk

Affiliation School of Life Sciences and the State Key Laboratory of Agrobiotechnology, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shatin, Hong Kong SAR, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Participated in the design and implementation of the algorithm, and drafted the manuscript: QZ. Participated in the design and jointly wrote the manuscript: XF. Participated in the design of the algorithm: YW MS SS. Conceived of the project, participated in the design and coordination, and assisted with the manuscript writing: DG. Read and approved the manuscript: QZ XF YW MS SS DG.