About the Authors

Xiaolin Hao

Affiliation Molecular and Computational Biology, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

Ting Chen

tingchen@usc.edu

Affiliation Molecular and Computational Biology, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: TC XH. Performed the experiments: XH. Analyzed the data: XH. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: TC XH. Wrote the paper: TC XH.