About the Authors

Feixiong Cheng

Contributed equally to this work with: Feixiong Cheng, Chuang Liu

Affiliation Department of Biomedical Informatics, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, Nashville, Tennessee, United States of America

Chuang Liu

Contributed equally to this work with: Feixiong Cheng, Chuang Liu

Affiliation Alibaba Research Center for Complexity Sciences, Hangzhou Normal University, Hangzhou, Zhejiang, China

Chen-Ching Lin

Affiliation Department of Biomedical Informatics, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, Nashville, Tennessee, United States of America

Junfei Zhao

Affiliation Department of Biomedical Informatics, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, Nashville, Tennessee, United States of America

Peilin Jia

Affiliations Department of Biomedical Informatics, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, Nashville, Tennessee, United States of America, Center for Quantitative Sciences, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, Tennessee, United States of America

Wen-Hsiung Li

Affiliations Department of Ecology and Evolution, University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America, Biodiversity Research Center and Genomics Research Center, Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan

Zhongming Zhao

zhongming.zhao@vanderbilt.edu

Affiliations Department of Biomedical Informatics, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, Nashville, Tennessee, United States of America, Center for Quantitative Sciences, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, Tennessee, United States of America, Department of Cancer Biology, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, Nashville, Tennessee, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: FC ZZ. Performed the experiments: FC CL CCL. Analyzed the data: FC CL JZ PJ. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: ZZ. Wrote the paper: FC ZZ CL WHL.