About the Authors

Xiaonan Fu

Contributed equally to this work with: Xiaonan Fu, Pengcheng Liu

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Validation, Writing – original draft

Affiliation The Interdisciplinary Ph.D. Program in Genetics, Bioinformatics, and Computational Biology, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Virginia, United States of America

Pengcheng Liu

Contributed equally to this work with: Xiaonan Fu, Pengcheng Liu

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Validation, Writing – original draft

Affiliation Department of Biochemistry, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Virginia, United States of America

George Dimopoulos

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation W. Harry Feinstone Department of Molecular Microbiology and Immunology, Bloomberg School of Public Health, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

Jinsong Zhu

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

zhujin@vt.edu

Affiliation Department of Biochemistry, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Virginia, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.