About the Authors

Fenglou Mao

Affiliations Computational Systems Biology Lab, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology and Institute of Bioinformatics, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia, United States of America, BioEnergy Science Center (BESC), University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia, United States of America

Victor Olman

Affiliation Computational Systems Biology Lab, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology and Institute of Bioinformatics, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia, United States of America

Yan Wang

Affiliation College of Computer Science and Technology, Jilin University, Changchun, China

Ying Xu

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, BioEnergy Science Center (BESC), University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia, United States of America, College of Computer Science and Technology, Jilin University, Changchun, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: FM YX. Performed the experiments: FM. Analyzed the data: YW. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: VO. Wrote the paper: FM.