About the Authors

Gang Li

ligang@udel.edu

Affiliation Department of Computer and Information Sciences, University of Delaware, Newark, Delaware, United States of America

Karen E. Ross

Affiliations Department of Biochemistry and Molecular & Cellular Biology, Georgetown University Medical Center, Washington, DC, United States of America, Center for Bioinformatics and Computational Biology, University of Delaware, Newark, Delaware, United States of America

Cecilia N. Arighi

Affiliation Center for Bioinformatics and Computational Biology, University of Delaware, Newark, Delaware, United States of America

Yifan Peng

Affiliation Department of Computer and Information Sciences, University of Delaware, Newark, Delaware, United States of America

Cathy H. Wu

Affiliations Department of Computer and Information Sciences, University of Delaware, Newark, Delaware, United States of America, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular & Cellular Biology, Georgetown University Medical Center, Washington, DC, United States of America, Center for Bioinformatics and Computational Biology, University of Delaware, Newark, Delaware, United States of America

K. Vijay-Shanker

Affiliation Department of Computer and Information Sciences, University of Delaware, Newark, Delaware, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: GL KVS. Performed the experiments: GL. Analyzed the data: GL KER. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: KER CNA YP. Wrote the paper: GL KER CNA YP CHW KVS. Coordinated the study: CHW KVS.