About the Authors

Hansaim Lim

Contributed equally to this work with: Hansaim Lim, Di He, Yue Qiu

Roles Methodology, Software, Writing – original draft

Affiliation Ph.D. Program in Biochemistry, The Graduate Center, The City University of New York, New York, New York, United States of America

Di He

Contributed equally to this work with: Hansaim Lim, Di He, Yue Qiu

Roles Formal analysis, Writing – original draft

Affiliation Ph.D. Program in Computer Science, The Graduate Center, The City University of New York, New York, New York, United States of America

Yue Qiu

Contributed equally to this work with: Hansaim Lim, Di He, Yue Qiu

Roles Formal analysis, Writing – original draft

Affiliation Ph.D. Program in Biology, The Graduate Center, The City University of New York, New York, New York, United States of America

Patrycja Krawczuk

Roles Formal analysis

Affiliation Department of Computer Science, Hunter College, The City University of New York, New York, New York, United States of America

Xiaoru Sun

Roles Formal analysis

Affiliations Department of Computer Science, Hunter College, The City University of New York, New York, New York, United States of America, Department of Biostatistics, School of Public Heath, Shandong University, Jinan, Shandong, People’s Republic of China

Lei Xie

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Software, Supervision, Validation, Writing – original draft

lei.xie@hunter.cuny.edu

Affiliations Ph.D. Program in Biochemistry, The Graduate Center, The City University of New York, New York, New York, United States of America, Ph.D. Program in Computer Science, The Graduate Center, The City University of New York, New York, New York, United States of America, Ph.D. Program in Biology, The Graduate Center, The City University of New York, New York, New York, United States of America, Department of Computer Science, Hunter College, The City University of New York, New York, New York, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.