About the Authors

Xiangyu Yao

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Software, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

‡ These authors share first authorship on this work.

Affiliation Graduate Program in Genetics, Bioinformatics and Computational Biology, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Virginia, United States of America

Benjamin L. Heidebrecht

Roles Investigation, Methodology, Software, Visualization, Writing – original draft

‡ These authors share first authorship on this work.

Affiliation Division of Systems Biology, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Virginia, United States of America

Jing Chen

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Software, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

chenjing@vt.edu (JC); tyson@vt.edu (JJT)

Affiliations Division of Systems Biology, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Virginia, United States of America, Department of Biological Sciences, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Virginia, United States of America, Fralin Life Sciences Institute, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Virginia, United States of America

John J. Tyson

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

chenjing@vt.edu (JC); tyson@vt.edu (JJT)

Affiliations Division of Systems Biology, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Virginia, United States of America, Department of Biological Sciences, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Virginia, United States of America, Fralin Life Sciences Institute, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Virginia, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.