About the Authors

Chih-Hao Lu

chlu@mail.cmu.edu.tw

Affiliation Graduate Institute of Molecular Systems Biomedicine, China Medical University, Taichung, Taiwan

Yu-Feng Lin

Affiliations Graduate Institute of Molecular Systems Biomedicine, China Medical University, Taichung, Taiwan, Institute of Bioinformatics and Systems Biology, National Chiao Tung University, Hsinchu, Taiwan

Jau-Ji Lin

Affiliations Institute of Bioinformatics and Systems Biology, National Chiao Tung University, Hsinchu, Taiwan, Bioinformatics Program, Taiwan International Graduate Program, Institute of Information Science, Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan, Institute of Biomedical Informatics, National Yang-Ming University, Taipei, Taiwan

Chin-Sheng Yu

Affiliations Department of Information Engineering and Computer Science, Feng Chia University, Taichung, Taiwan, Master's Program in Biomedical Informatics and Biomedical Engineering, Feng Chia University, Taichung, Taiwan

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: CHL. Performed the experiments: CHL YFL JJL. Analyzed the data: CHL YFL CSY. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: CHL CSY. Wrote the paper: CHL YFL.