About the Authors

Bo Yao

Affiliation School of Biological Sciences, Center for Plant Science and Innovation, University of Nebraska, Lincoln, Nebraska, United States of America

Lin Zhang

Affiliation Department of Statistics, University of Nebraska, Lincoln, Nebraska, United States of America

Shide Liang

czhang5@unl.edu (CZ); shideliang@hotmail.com (SL)

Affiliation Systems Immunology Lab, Immunology Frontier Research Center, Osaka University, Suita, Osaka, Japan

Chi Zhang

czhang5@unl.edu (CZ); shideliang@hotmail.com (SL)

Affiliation School of Biological Sciences, Center for Plant Science and Innovation, University of Nebraska, Lincoln, Nebraska, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: BY. Performed the experiments: BY. Analyzed the data: BY. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: BY LZ SL. Wrote the paper: BY LZ SL CZ. Designed the web server: BY CZ.