About the Authors

Jiaxin Wang

Affiliation Key Laboratory for Symbolic Computation and Knowledge Engineering of the Ministry of Education, College of Computer Science and Technology, Jilin University, Changchun, China

Yanchun Liang

Affiliation Key Laboratory for Symbolic Computation and Knowledge Engineering of the Ministry of Education, College of Computer Science and Technology, Jilin University, Changchun, China

Yan Wang

Affiliation Key Laboratory for Symbolic Computation and Knowledge Engineering of the Ministry of Education, College of Computer Science and Technology, Jilin University, Changchun, China

Juan Cui

Affiliation Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, and Institute of Bioinformatics, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia, United States of America

Ming Liu

Affiliation Key Laboratory for Symbolic Computation and Knowledge Engineering of the Ministry of Education, College of Computer Science and Technology, Jilin University, Changchun, China

Wei Du

weidu@jlu.edu.cn (WD); xyn@bmb.uga.edu (YX)

Affiliation Key Laboratory for Symbolic Computation and Knowledge Engineering of the Ministry of Education, College of Computer Science and Technology, Jilin University, Changchun, China

Ying Xu

weidu@jlu.edu.cn (WD); xyn@bmb.uga.edu (YX)

Affiliations Key Laboratory for Symbolic Computation and Knowledge Engineering of the Ministry of Education, College of Computer Science and Technology, Jilin University, Changchun, China, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, and Institute of Bioinformatics, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: JXW YCL YW WD YX. Performed the experiments: JXW WD. Analyzed the data: JXW YW YX. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: JC ML. Wrote the manuscript: JXW YCL YW WD YX.