About the Authors

Gu Mi

neo.migu@gmail.com

Affiliation Department of Statistics, Oregon State University, Corvallis, Oregon, United States of America

Yanming Di

Affiliations Department of Statistics, Oregon State University, Corvallis, Oregon, United States of America, Molecular and Cellular Biology Program, Oregon State University, Corvallis, Oregon, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: GM YD. Performed the experiments: GM YD. Analyzed the data: GM. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: GM YD. Wrote the paper: GM YD.