About the Authors

Jun Chen

Affiliation Center for Bioinformatics and Genomics, Department of Biostatistics and Bioinformatics, School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine, Tulane University, New Orleans, Louisiana, United States of America

Ji-Gang Zhang

Affiliation Center for Bioinformatics and Genomics, Department of Biostatistics and Bioinformatics, School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine, Tulane University, New Orleans, Louisiana, United States of America

Jian Li

Affiliation Center for Bioinformatics and Genomics, Department of Biostatistics and Bioinformatics, School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine, Tulane University, New Orleans, Louisiana, United States of America

Yu-Fang Pei

Affiliation Center for Bioinformatics and Genomics, Department of Biostatistics and Bioinformatics, School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine, Tulane University, New Orleans, Louisiana, United States of America

Hong-Wen Deng

hdeng2@tulane.edu

Affiliations Center for Bioinformatics and Genomics, Department of Biostatistics and Bioinformatics, School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine, Tulane University, New Orleans, Louisiana, United States of America, Center of System Biomedical Sciences, University of Shanghai for Science and Technology, Shanghai, P. R. China, College of Life Sciences and Bioengineering, Beijing Jiaotong University, Beijing, P. R. China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: JC JGZ JL HWD. Performed the experiments: JC. Analyzed the data: JC. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: JGZ JL. Wrote the paper: JC JGZ JL YFP HWD.