About the Authors

Wei Sha

Contributed equally to this work with: Wei Sha, Ana M. Martins

Affiliations Virginia Bioinformatics Institute, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Virginia, United States of America, Bioinformatics Research Division, University of North Carolina at Charlotte, Kannapolis, North Carolina, United States of America

Ana M. Martins

Contributed equally to this work with: Wei Sha, Ana M. Martins

amtbs.martins@gmail.com

Affiliations Virginia Bioinformatics Institute, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Virginia, United States of America, Department of Applied Biology, University of Sharjah, Sharjah, United Arab Emirates

Reinhard Laubenbacher

Affiliations Virginia Bioinformatics Institute, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Virginia, United States of America, Center for Quantitative Medicine, University of Connecticut Health Center, Farmington, Connecticut, United States of America

Pedro Mendes

Affiliations Virginia Bioinformatics Institute, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Virginia, United States of America, School of Computer Science and Manchester Centre for Integrative Systems Biology, University of Manchester, Manchester, United Kingdom

Vladimir Shulaev

Affiliations Virginia Bioinformatics Institute, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Virginia, United States of America, Department of Biological Sciences, College of Arts and Sciences, University of North Texas, Denton, Texas, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: AMM VS. Performed the experiments: AMM. Analyzed the data: WS AMM. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: VS PM RL. Wrote the manuscript: AMM WS PM RL VS. Developed the concept of the project: RL PM VS. Directed the project: RL. Supervised data analysis: RL PM. Supervised experimental work: VS.