About the Authors

Xue-wen Chen

*E-mail: xwchen@ku.edu

Affiliation Bioinformatics and Computational Life-Sciences Laboratory, Information and Telecommunication Technology Center (ITTC), Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, The University of Kansas, Lawrence, Kansas, United States of America

Mei Liu

Affiliation Bioinformatics and Computational Life-Sciences Laboratory, Information and Telecommunication Technology Center (ITTC), Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, The University of Kansas, Lawrence, Kansas, United States of America

Robert Ward

Affiliation Department of Molecular Biosciences, The University of Kansas, Lawrence, Kansas, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: XC. Performed the experiments: ML. Analyzed the data: XC ML RW. Wrote the paper: XC ML RW.