About the Authors

Huiying Zhao

Affiliations School of Informatics, Indiana University Purdue University, Indianapolis, Indiana, United States of America, Center for Computational Biology and Bioinformatics, Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, Indiana, United States of America, QIMR Berghofer Medical Research Institute, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia

Jihua Wang

Affiliations Center for Computational Biology and Bioinformatics, Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, Indiana, United States of America, Shandong Provincial Key Laboratory of Functional Macromolecular Biophysics, Dezhou University, Dezhou, Shandong, China

Yaoqi Zhou

yaoqi.zhou@griffith.edu.au (YZ); yuedong.yang@griffith.edu.au (YY)

Affiliations School of Informatics, Indiana University Purdue University, Indianapolis, Indiana, United States of America, Center for Computational Biology and Bioinformatics, Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, Indiana, United States of America, Shandong Provincial Key Laboratory of Functional Macromolecular Biophysics, Dezhou University, Dezhou, Shandong, China, Institute for Glycomics and School of Information and Communication Technique, Griffith University, Southport, Queensland, Australia

Yuedong Yang

yaoqi.zhou@griffith.edu.au (YZ); yuedong.yang@griffith.edu.au (YY)

Affiliations School of Informatics, Indiana University Purdue University, Indianapolis, Indiana, United States of America, Center for Computational Biology and Bioinformatics, Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, Indiana, United States of America, Institute for Glycomics and School of Information and Communication Technique, Griffith University, Southport, Queensland, Australia

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: YZ YY. Performed the experiments: HZ JW. Analyzed the data: HZ JW. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: HZ JW YY. Wrote the paper: HZ JW YZ YY.