About the Authors

Jingyuan Deng

Affiliations Division of Biomedical Informatics, Cincinnati Children's Hospital Research Foundation, Cincinnati, Ohio, United States of America, Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, Ohio, United States of America

Wei Wang

Affiliations Division of Biomedical Informatics, Cincinnati Children's Hospital Research Foundation, Cincinnati, Ohio, United States of America, Department of Chemical Engineering, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, Ohio, United States of America

Long Jason Lu

Affiliations Division of Biomedical Informatics, Cincinnati Children's Hospital Research Foundation, Cincinnati, Ohio, United States of America, Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, Ohio, United States of America

Jun Ma

jun.ma@cchmc.org

Affiliations Division of Biomedical Informatics, Cincinnati Children's Hospital Research Foundation, Cincinnati, Ohio, United States of America, Division of Developmental Biology, Cincinnati Children's Hospital Research Foundation, Cincinnati, Ohio, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: JD JM. Performed the experiments: JD. Analyzed the data: JD WW LJL JM. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: WW LJL. Wrote the paper: JD WW JM.