About the Authors

Gamze Gürsoy

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Methodology, Software, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Current address: Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry, Computational Biology and Bioinformatics Program, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, United States of America

Affiliation The Richard and Loan Hill Department of Bioengineering, Program in Bioinformatics, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America

Yun Xu

Roles Methodology, Software

Affiliation The Richard and Loan Hill Department of Bioengineering, Program in Bioinformatics, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America

Jie Liang

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

jliang@uic.edu

Affiliation The Richard and Loan Hill Department of Bioengineering, Program in Bioinformatics, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.