About the Authors

Chenfeng He

Affiliation The State Key Laboratory of Pharmaceutical Biotechnology and Jiangsu Engineering Research Center for MicroRNA Biology and Biotechnology, School of Life Science, Nanjing University, Nanjing, China

Ying-Xin Li

Affiliations National Key Laboratory for Novel Software Technology, Nanjing University, Nanjing, China, Institute of Machine Vision and Machine Intelligence, Beijing Jingwei Textile Machinery New Technology Co., Ltd., Beijing, China

Guangxin Zhang

Affiliation The State Key Laboratory of Pharmaceutical Biotechnology and Jiangsu Engineering Research Center for MicroRNA Biology and Biotechnology, School of Life Science, Nanjing University, Nanjing, China

Zuguang Gu

Affiliation The State Key Laboratory of Pharmaceutical Biotechnology and Jiangsu Engineering Research Center for MicroRNA Biology and Biotechnology, School of Life Science, Nanjing University, Nanjing, China

Rong Yang

Affiliation Biophysics Institute, School of Physics, Nanjing University, Nanjing, China

Jie Li

Affiliation The State Key Laboratory of Pharmaceutical Biotechnology and Jiangsu Engineering Research Center for MicroRNA Biology and Biotechnology, School of Life Science, Nanjing University, Nanjing, China

Zhi John Lu

Affiliation Ministry of Education Key Lab of Bioinformatics & System Biology, School of Life Science, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China

Zhi-Hua Zhou

zhouzh@nju.edu.cn (ZHZ); cyzhang@nju.edu.cn (CZ); jwang@nju.edu.cn (JW)

Affiliation National Key Laboratory for Novel Software Technology, Nanjing University, Nanjing, China

Chenyu Zhang

zhouzh@nju.edu.cn (ZHZ); cyzhang@nju.edu.cn (CZ); jwang@nju.edu.cn (JW)

Affiliation The State Key Laboratory of Pharmaceutical Biotechnology and Jiangsu Engineering Research Center for MicroRNA Biology and Biotechnology, School of Life Science, Nanjing University, Nanjing, China

Jin Wang

zhouzh@nju.edu.cn (ZHZ); cyzhang@nju.edu.cn (CZ); jwang@nju.edu.cn (JW)

Affiliation The State Key Laboratory of Pharmaceutical Biotechnology and Jiangsu Engineering Research Center for MicroRNA Biology and Biotechnology, School of Life Science, Nanjing University, Nanjing, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: ZHZ CZ JW. Performed the experiments: CH YXL RY ZJL. Analyzed the data: CH GZ JL. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: ZG. Wrote the paper: CH YXL JW. Implemented the programs: CH YXL.