About the Authors

Mary Hongying Cheng

Affiliation Department of Computational and Systems Biology, School of Medicine, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, United States of America

Ivet Bahar

bahar@pitt.edu

Affiliation Department of Computational and Systems Biology, School of Medicine, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

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