About the Authors
- Xizeng Mao
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Contributed equally to this work with: Xizeng Mao, Xin Chen
Affiliations Computational Systems Biology Lab, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology and Institute of Bioinformatics, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia, United States of America, BESC BioEnergy Science Center, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia, United States of America
- Xin Chen
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Contributed equally to this work with: Xizeng Mao, Xin Chen
Affiliations College of Computer Science and Technology, Jilin University, Jilin, Changchun, China, Key Laboratory of Symbolic Computation and Knowledge Engineering of the Ministry of Education, Jilin University, Jilin, Changchun, China
- Yu Zhang
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Affiliations College of Computer Science and Technology, Jilin University, Jilin, Changchun, China, Key Laboratory of Symbolic Computation and Knowledge Engineering of the Ministry of Education, Jilin University, Jilin, Changchun, China
- Spencer Pangle
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Affiliation Computational Systems Biology Lab, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology and Institute of Bioinformatics, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia, United States of America
- Ying Xu
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* E-mail: xyn@bmb.uga.edu
Affiliations Computational Systems Biology Lab, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology and Institute of Bioinformatics, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia, United States of America, BESC BioEnergy Science Center, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia, United States of America, College of Computer Science and Technology, Jilin University, Jilin, Changchun, China
Competing Interests
The authors have the following interest. In this paper, the authors present a web-based network-synthesis system, CINPER, to assist a biologist user to build a user-specified gene network for a prokaryotic organism in an intuitive manner. There are no further patents, products in development or marketed products to declare. This does not alter the authors' adherence to all the PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials, as detailed online in the guide for authors.
Author Contributions
Conceived and designed the experiments: XM YX. Performed the experiments: XM XC. Analyzed the data: XM XC SP. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: YZ. Wrote the paper: XM XC YX.