About the Authors

Ning Zhang

Contributed equally to this work with: Ning Zhang, You Zhou

Affiliation Department of Biomedical Engineering, Tianjin Key Lab of Biomedical Engineering Measurement, Tianjin University, Tianjin, P.R. China

You Zhou

Contributed equally to this work with: Ning Zhang, You Zhou

Affiliation Institute of Health Sciences, Shanghai Institutes for Biological Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences and Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine, Shanghai, P. R. China

Tao Huang

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

Yu-Chao Zhang

Affiliation Institute of Health Sciences, Shanghai Institutes for Biological Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences and Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine, Shanghai, P. R. China

Bi-Qing Li

Affiliation Key Laboratory of Systems Biology, Shanghai Institutes for Biological Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai, P.R. China

Lei Chen

Affiliation College of Information Engineering, Shanghai Maritime University, Shanghai, P.R. China

Yu-Dong Cai

cai_yud@126.com

Affiliation Institute of Systems Biology, Shanghai University, Shanghai, P.R. China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: TH BQL YDC. Performed the experiments: NZ YZ YCZ BQL. Analyzed the data: NZ YZ TH YDC. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: NZ YZ BQL LC. Contributed to the writing of the manuscript: NZ YZ LC.