About the Authors

Bi-Qing Li

Contributed equally to this work with: Bi-Qing Li, Tao Huang

Affiliations Key Laboratory of Systems Biology, Shanghai Institutes for Biological Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai, People's Republic of China, Shanghai Center for Bioinformation Technology, Shanghai, People's Republic of China

Tao Huang

Contributed equally to this work with: Bi-Qing Li, Tao Huang

Affiliations Key Laboratory of Systems Biology, Shanghai Institutes for Biological Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai, People's Republic of China, Shanghai Center for Bioinformation Technology, Shanghai, People's Republic of China

Lei Liu

liulei@sibs.ac.cn (LL); cai_yud@yahoo.com.cn (Y-DC)

Affiliations Key Laboratory of Systems Biology, Shanghai Institutes for Biological Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai, People's Republic of China, Shanghai Center for Bioinformation Technology, Shanghai, People's Republic of China

Yu-Dong Cai

liulei@sibs.ac.cn (LL); cai_yud@yahoo.com.cn (Y-DC)

Affiliations Institute of Systems Biology, Shanghai University, Shanghai, People's Republic of China, Centre for Computational Systems Biology, Fudan University, Shanghai, People's Republic of China, Gordon Life Science Institute, San Diego, California, United States of America

Kuo-Chen Chou

Affiliation Gordon Life Science Institute, San Diego, California, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: BL TH LL YC KCC. Performed the experiments: BL TH. Analyzed the data: BL. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: BL. Wrote the paper: BL KCC.