About the Authors

Xuming Tong

Affiliation College of Computer and Information Science, Southwest University, Chongqing, P. R. China

Jinghang Chen

jinghang_chen@outlook.com (JHC); tinalee@swu.edu.cn (TTL); zhanglcq@swu.edu.cn (LZ)

Affiliation College of Computer and Information Science, Southwest University, Chongqing, P. R. China

Hongyu Miao

Affiliation Department of Biostatistics, School of Public Health, University of Texas Houston, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Tingting Li

jinghang_chen@outlook.com (JHC); tinalee@swu.edu.cn (TTL); zhanglcq@swu.edu.cn (LZ)

Affiliation School of Mathematics and Statistics, Southwest University, Chongqing, China

Le Zhang

jinghang_chen@outlook.com (JHC); tinalee@swu.edu.cn (TTL); zhanglcq@swu.edu.cn (LZ)

Affiliations College of Computer and Information Science, Southwest University, Chongqing, P. R. China, Department of Biostatistics and Computational Biology, Center for Biodefense Immune Modeling, University of Rochester, New York, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: XMT JHC HYM TTL LZ. Performed the experiments: XMT JHC HYM TTL LZ. Analyzed the data: XMT JHC HYM TTL LZ. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: XMT JHC HYM TTL LZ. Wrote the paper: XMT JHC HYM TTL LZ.