About the Authors

Zhiwei Ji

Contributed equally to this work with: Zhiwei Ji, Weiling Zhao

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Software, Validation, Writing – original draft

Affiliation School of Biomedical Informatics, The University of Texas Health science center at Houston, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Weiling Zhao

Contributed equally to this work with: Zhiwei Ji, Weiling Zhao

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation School of Biomedical Informatics, The University of Texas Health science center at Houston, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Hui-Kuan Lin

Roles Investigation, Visualization

Affiliation Department of Cancer Biology, Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center, Wake Forest University, Winston Salem, North Carolina, United States of America

Xiaobo Zhou

Roles Project administration, Supervision

Xiaobo.Zhou@uth.tmc.edu

Affiliation School of Biomedical Informatics, The University of Texas Health science center at Houston, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.