About the Authors

Xiongwu Wu

wuxw@nhlbi.nih.gov

Affiliation Laboratory of Computational Biology, National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI), National Institutes of Health (NIH), Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Bernard R. Brooks

Affiliation Laboratory of Computational Biology, National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI), National Institutes of Health (NIH), Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

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