About the Authors

Feixiong Cheng

Contributed equally to this work with: Feixiong Cheng, James L. Murray

fxcheng1985@gmail.com (FC); zhongming.zhao@uth.tmc.edu (ZZ); don.h.rubin@vanderbilt.edu (DHR)

Current address: Center for Cancer Systems Biology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02215, USA, and Center for Complex Networks Research, Northeastern University, Boston, MA 02115, USA.

Affiliations State Key Laboratory of Biotherapy/Collaborative Innovation Center for Biotherapy, West China Hospital, West China Medical School, Sichuan University, Chengdu 610041, Sichuan, China, Department of Biomedical Informatics, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, Nashville, Tennessee, United States of America

James L. Murray

Contributed equally to this work with: Feixiong Cheng, James L. Murray

Current address: GeneTAG Technology, Inc., Atlanta, Georgia, USA.

Affiliation Zirus, Incorporated, Buford, Georgia, United States of America

Junfei Zhao

Affiliation Center for Precision Health, School of Biomedical Informatics, The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Jinsong Sheng

Affiliation Division of Infectious Disease, Department of Medicine, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, Nashville, Tennessee, United States of America

Zhongming Zhao

fxcheng1985@gmail.com (FC); zhongming.zhao@uth.tmc.edu (ZZ); don.h.rubin@vanderbilt.edu (DHR)

Affiliations Department of Biomedical Informatics, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, Nashville, Tennessee, United States of America, Center for Precision Health, School of Biomedical Informatics, The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, Houston, Texas, United States of America, Department of Psychiatry, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, Nashville, Tennessee, United States of America, Department of Cancer Biology, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, Nashville, Tennessee, United States of America

Donald H. Rubin

fxcheng1985@gmail.com (FC); zhongming.zhao@uth.tmc.edu (ZZ); don.h.rubin@vanderbilt.edu (DHR)

Affiliations Division of Infectious Disease, Department of Medicine, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, Nashville, Tennessee, United States of America, Department of Pathology, Microbiology and Immunology, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, Nashville, Tennessee, United States of America, Research Medicine, Veterans Tennessee Valley Healthcare System, Nashville, Tennessee, United States of America

Competing Interests

JLM was previously employed by Zirus, Inc and is currently employed by GeneTAG Technology, Inc. The authors confirm they have no competing interests.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: DHR FC ZZ. Performed the experiments: FC JLM. Analyzed the data: FC JLM DHR JS JZ. Wrote the paper: FC DHR.