About the Authors

Hongying Du

Affiliations Center for Computational Medicine and Bioinformatics, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States of America, Department of Public Health, Lanzhou University, Lanzhou, China

Zhide Hu

Affiliation Department of Chemistry, Lanzhou University, Lanzhou, China

Andrea Bazzoli

Affiliation Center for Computational Medicine and Bioinformatics, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States of America

Yang Zhang

zhng@umich.edu

Affiliation Center for Computational Medicine and Bioinformatics, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: HYD YZ. Performed the experiments: HYD. Analyzed the data: HYD ZDH AB YZ. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: HYD ZDH YZ. Wrote the paper: HYD AB YZ.