About the Authors

Dingqiao Wen

dw20@rice.edu (DW); nakhleh@rice.edu (LN)

Affiliation Computer Science, Rice University, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Yun Yu

Affiliation Computer Science, Rice University, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Luay Nakhleh

dw20@rice.edu (DW); nakhleh@rice.edu (LN)

Affiliations Computer Science, Rice University, Houston, Texas, United States of America, BioSciences, Rice University, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: DW YY LN. Performed the experiments: DW. Analyzed the data: DW YY LN. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: DW YY. Wrote the paper: DW YY LN. Designed the software used in analysis: DW YY.