About the Authors

Tao Huang

¤ Current address: Department of Genetics and Genomic Sciences, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, New York, United States of America

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

Min Jiang

Affiliations Institute of Health Sciences, Shanghai Institutes for Biological Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences and Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine, Shanghai, People's Republic of China, State Key Laboratory of Medical Genomics, Ruijin Hospital, Shanghai Jiaotong University, Shanghai, People's Republic of China

Xiangyin Kong

xykong@sibs.ac.cn) (XK); cai_yud@yahoo.com.cn (YDC)

Affiliations Institute of Health Sciences, Shanghai Institutes for Biological Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences and Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine, Shanghai, People's Republic of China, State Key Laboratory of Medical Genomics, Ruijin Hospital, Shanghai Jiaotong University, Shanghai, People's Republic of China

Yu-Dong Cai

xykong@sibs.ac.cn) (XK); cai_yud@yahoo.com.cn (YDC)

Affiliation Institute of Systems Biology, Shanghai University, Shanghai, People's Republic of China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: XK YDC. Performed the experiments: TH. Analyzed the data: TH. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: MJ. Wrote the paper: TH MJ.