About the Authors

Fang Zhou

Affiliation Division of Computer Science, The University of Nottingham, Ningbo, China

Hannu Toivonen

Affiliation Department of Computer Science, University of Helsinki, Finland

Ross D. King

ross.king@manchester.ac.uk

Affiliation Manchester Institute of Biotechnology, University of Manchester, Manchester, United Kingdom

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: RDK. Performed the experiments: FZ. Analyzed the data: FZ. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: FZ HT. Wrote the paper: FZ RDK.