About the Authors

Pooya Zandevakili

Current address: Microsoft Corporation, Redmond, Washington, United States of America

Affiliation Computer Science and Engineering Department, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States of America

Ming Hu

Affiliation Department of Statistics, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America

Zhaohui Qin

zhaohui.qin@emory.edu

Affiliations Department of Biostatistics and Bioinformatics, Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America, Center for Comprehensive Informatics, Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America, Department of Biomedical Informatics, Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: ZQ MH PZ. Analyzed the data: PZ MH. Wrote the paper: ZQ PZ. Developed the method and coded the software package: PZ. Helped code the software package: MH.