About the Authors

Guohua Huang

Contributed equally to this work with: Guohua Huang, Yuchao Zhang

Affiliations Institute of Systems Biology, Shanghai University, Shanghai, China, Department of Mathematics, Shaoyang University, Shaoyang, Hunan, China

Yuchao Zhang

Contributed equally to this work with: Guohua Huang, Yuchao Zhang

Affiliations Graduate School of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China, State Key Laboratory of Medical Genomics, Institute of Health Sciences, Shanghai Institutes for Biological Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine, Shanghai, China

Lei Chen

cai_yud@126.com (Y-DC); tao.huang@mssm.edu (TH); chen_lei1@163.com (LC); zhni@tju.edu.cn (NZ)

Affiliation College of Information Engineering, Shanghai Maritime University, Shanghai, China

Ning Zhang

cai_yud@126.com (Y-DC); tao.huang@mssm.edu (TH); chen_lei1@163.com (LC); zhni@tju.edu.cn (NZ)

Affiliation Department of Biomedical Engineering, Tianjin University, Tianjin Key Lab of BME Measurement, Tianjin, China

Tao Huang

cai_yud@126.com (Y-DC); tao.huang@mssm.edu (TH); chen_lei1@163.com (LC); zhni@tju.edu.cn (NZ)

Affiliation Department of Genetics and Genomic Sciences, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York City, New York, United States of America

Yu-Dong Cai

cai_yud@126.com (Y-DC); tao.huang@mssm.edu (TH); chen_lei1@163.com (LC); zhni@tju.edu.cn (NZ)

Affiliation Institute of Systems Biology, Shanghai University, Shanghai, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: LC NZ TH YDC. Performed the experiments: GH YZ. Analyzed the data: YZ LC TH YDC. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: GH NZ TH. Wrote the paper: GH YZ LC NZ.