About the Authors

Rholee Xu

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Software, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Bioinformatics and Computational Biology Program, Worcester Polytechnic Institute, Worcester, Massachusetts, United States of America

Luis Vidali

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

lvidali@wpi.edu (LV); englier@gmail.com (MW)

Affiliations Bioinformatics and Computational Biology Program, Worcester Polytechnic Institute, Worcester, Massachusetts, United States of America, Department of Biology and Biotechnology, Worcester Polytechnic Institute, Worcester, Massachusetts, United States of America

Min Wu

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Software, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

lvidali@wpi.edu (LV); englier@gmail.com (MW)

Affiliations Bioinformatics and Computational Biology Program, Worcester Polytechnic Institute, Worcester, Massachusetts, United States of America, Department of Mathematical Sciences, Worcester Polytechnic Institute, Worcester, Massachusetts, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.