About the Authors

Yanbin Yin

Affiliations Computational System Biology Lab, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, and Institute of Bioinformatics, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia, United States of America, BioEnergy Science Center, Oak Ridge, Tennessee, United States of America

Jinling Huang

Affiliation Department of Biology, East Carolina University, Greenville, North Carolina, United States of America

Xiaogang Gu

Affiliations Complex Carbohydrate Research Center, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia, United States of America, BioEnergy Science Center, Oak Ridge, Tennessee, United States of America

Maor Bar-Peled

xyn@bmb.uga.edu (YX) (MB); peled@ccrc.uga.edu (MB) (YX)

Affiliations Complex Carbohydrate Research Center, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia, United States of America, BioEnergy Science Center, Oak Ridge, Tennessee, United States of America

Ying Xu

xyn@bmb.uga.edu (YX) (MB); peled@ccrc.uga.edu (MB) (YX)

Affiliations Computational System Biology Lab, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, and Institute of Bioinformatics, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia, United States of America, BioEnergy Science Center, Oak Ridge, Tennessee, United States of America, College of Computer Science and Technology, Jilin University, Changchun, Jilin, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: YY MB. Performed the experiments: YY. Analyzed the data: YY MB JH. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: XG YX. Wrote the paper: YY MB JH YX.