About the Authors

Edward H. Ip

eip@wakehealth.edu

Affiliation Department of Biostatistical Sciences, Wake Forest School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, North Carolina, United States of America

Qiang Zhang

Affiliation Department of Biostatistical Sciences, Wake Forest School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, North Carolina, United States of America

Tomasz Sowinski

Affiliation School of Information Sciences, University of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Sean L. Simpson

Affiliation Department of Biostatistical Sciences, Wake Forest School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, North Carolina, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: EI SLS. Performed the experiments: QZ EI TS. Analyzed the data: QZ EI TS. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: QZ EI. Wrote the paper: EI QZ SLS.