About the Authors

Wei Chen

Contributed equally to this work with: Wei Chen, Hao Lin

wchen@gordonlifescience.org (WC); hlin@uestc.edu.cn (HL); kcchou@gordonlifescience.org (KCC)

Affiliations Department of Physics, School of Sciences, Center for Genomics and Computational Biology, Hebei United University, Tangshan, China, Gordon Life Science Institute, San Diego, California, United States of America

Hao Lin

Contributed equally to this work with: Wei Chen, Hao Lin

wchen@gordonlifescience.org (WC); hlin@uestc.edu.cn (HL); kcchou@gordonlifescience.org (KCC)

Affiliation Key Laboratory for Neuro-Information of Ministry of Education, Center of Bioinformatics, School of Life Science and Technology, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Chengdu, China

Peng-Mian Feng

Affiliation School of Public Health, Hebei United University, Tangshan, China

Chen Ding

Affiliation Key Laboratory for Neuro-Information of Ministry of Education, Center of Bioinformatics, School of Life Science and Technology, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Chengdu, China

Yong-Chun Zuo

Affiliation The National Research Center for Animal Transgenic Biotechnology, Inner Mongolia University, Hohhot, China

Kuo-Chen Chou

wchen@gordonlifescience.org (WC); hlin@uestc.edu.cn (HL); kcchou@gordonlifescience.org (KCC)

Affiliation Gordon Life Science Institute, San Diego, California, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: WC HL. Performed the experiments: WC HL PMF CD YCZ. Analyzed the data: WC HL PMF CD KCC. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: WC HL. Wrote the paper: WC KCC.