About the Authors

Minli Xu

Current address: Department of Computational Biology, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Affiliation Department of Bioinformatics and Genomics, University of North Carolina at Charlotte, Charlotte, North Carolina, United States of America

Zhengchang Su

zcsu@uncc.edu

Affiliation Department of Bioinformatics and Genomics, University of North Carolina at Charlotte, Charlotte, North Carolina, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: ZS. Performed the experiments: MX. Analyzed the data: MX ZS. Wrote the paper: MX ZS.