About the Authors
- Xi Chen
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Affiliation Department of Genetics, Development and Cell Biology, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa, United States of America
- Peng Liu
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Affiliation Department of Statistics, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa, United States of America
- Hui-Hsien Chou
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* E-mail: hhchou@iastate.edu
Affiliations Department of Genetics, Development and Cell Biology, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa, United States of America, Department of Computer Science, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa, United States of America
Competing Interests
The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.
Author Contributions
Designed the software used in analysis: HC. Seeking Institutional Biosafety Approval for the experiments: XC HC. Conceived and designed the experiments: XC HC. Performed the experiments: XC. Analyzed the data: XC PL HC. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: XC HC. Wrote the paper: XC PL HC.