About the Authors

Wan J. Hsieh

Affiliation Institute of Statistics, National Chiao Tung University, Hsinchu, Taiwan

Feng-Mao Lin

Affiliation Department of Biological Science and Technology, Institute of Bioinformatics and Systems Biology, National Chiao Tung University, Hsinchu, Taiwan

Hsien-Da Huang

wang@stat.nctu.edu.tw (HW); bryan@mail.nctu.edu.tw (H-DH)

Affiliation Department of Biological Science and Technology, Institute of Bioinformatics and Systems Biology, National Chiao Tung University, Hsinchu, Taiwan

Hsiuying Wang

wang@stat.nctu.edu.tw (HW); bryan@mail.nctu.edu.tw (H-DH)

Affiliation Institute of Statistics, National Chiao Tung University, Hsinchu, Taiwan

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: W-JH F-ML H-DH HW. Performed the experiments: W-JH F-ML H-DH HW. Analyzed the data: W-JH F-ML H-DH HW. Wrote the paper: W-JH F-ML H-DH HW.