About the Authors

Zheng Wang

Affiliation Computer Science Department, University of Missouri, Columbia, Missouri, United States of America

Renzhi Cao

Affiliation Computer Science Department, University of Missouri, Columbia, Missouri, United States of America

Kristen Taylor

Affiliation Department of Pathology and Anatomical Sciences, School of Medicine, University of Missouri, Columbia, Missouri, United States of America

Aaron Briley

Current address: Lieber Institute for Brain Development, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America.

Affiliation Department of Pathology and Anatomical Sciences, School of Medicine, University of Missouri, Columbia, Missouri, United States of America

Charles Caldwell

Current address: Translational Medicine, Eli Lilly and Company, Indianapolis, Indiana, United States of America.

Affiliation Department of Pathology and Anatomical Sciences, School of Medicine, University of Missouri, Columbia, Missouri, United States of America

Jianlin Cheng

chengji@missouri.edu

Affiliations Computer Science Department, University of Missouri, Columbia, Missouri, United States of America, Informatics Institute, University of Missouri, Columbia, Missouri, United States of America, Christopher S. Bond Life Science Center, University of Missouri, Columbia, Missouri, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Edited the manuscript: JC CC ZW RZ KT AB. Conceived and designed the experiments: JC CC ZW KT. Performed the experiments: ZW RC AB. Analyzed the data: ZW JC RZ CC KT. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: JC CC KT. Wrote the paper: ZW JC RC KT.