About the Authors

Thom Vreven

Affiliation Program in Bioinformatics and Integrative Biology, University of Massachusetts Medical School, Worcester, Massachusetts, United States of America

Howook Hwang

Affiliation Program in Bioinformatics and Integrative Biology, University of Massachusetts Medical School, Worcester, Massachusetts, United States of America

Zhiping Weng

Zhiping.Weng@umassmed.edu

Affiliation Program in Bioinformatics and Integrative Biology, University of Massachusetts Medical School, Worcester, Massachusetts, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: TV HH ZW. Performed the experiments: TV. Analyzed the data: TV HH ZW. Wrote the paper: TV HH ZW.