About the Authors

Lihua J. Zhu

michael.brodsky@umassmed.edu (MHB); julie.zhu@umassmed.edu (LJZ)

Affiliations Program in Gene Function and Expression and Program in Molecular Medicine, University of Massachusetts Medical School, Worcester, MA, United States of America, Program in Bioinformatics and Integrative Biology, University of Massachusetts Medical School, Worcester, MA, United States of America

Benjamin R. Holmes

Affiliation Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, McGovern Institute for Brain Research at MIT, Departments of Brain and Cognitive Sciences and Biological Engineering, MIT, Cambridge, MA, United States of America

Neil Aronin

Affiliation RNA Therapeutics Institute and Department of Medicine, University of Massachusetts Medical School, Worcester, MA, United States of America

Michael H. Brodsky

michael.brodsky@umassmed.edu (MHB); julie.zhu@umassmed.edu (LJZ)

Affiliation Program in Gene Function and Expression and Program in Molecular Medicine, University of Massachusetts Medical School, Worcester, MA, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: LJZ BRH NA MHB. Performed the experiments: LJZ MHB. Analyzed the data: LJZ MHB. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: LJZ BRH. Contributed to the writing of the manuscript: LJZ NA MHB. Designed the software: LJZ MHB.