About the Authors

Han Wang

Affiliations School of Computer Science and Information Technology, Northeast Normal University, Changchun, People’s Republic of China, Department of Computer Science, Christopher S. Bond Life Sciences Center, University of Missouri, Columbia, Missouri, United States of America

Zhiquan He

Affiliation Department of Computer Science, Christopher S. Bond Life Sciences Center, University of Missouri, Columbia, Missouri, United States of America

Chao Zhang

Affiliation Department of Computer Science, Christopher S. Bond Life Sciences Center, University of Missouri, Columbia, Missouri, United States of America

Li Zhang

Affiliation School of Computer Science and Engineering, Changchun University of Technology, Changchun, People’s Republic of China

Dong Xu

xudong@missouri.edu

Affiliation Department of Computer Science, Christopher S. Bond Life Sciences Center, University of Missouri, Columbia, Missouri, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: DX. Performed the experiments: HW. Analyzed the data: HW ZH CZ LZ. Wrote the paper: HW DX.