About the Authors

Hui-Yin Chang

Affiliations Bioinformatics Program, Taiwan International Graduate Program, Academia Sinica, Taipei 11529, Taiwan, Institute of Biomedical Informatics, National Yang-Ming University, Taipei 11221, Taiwan, Institute of Information Science, Academia Sinica, Taipei 11529, Taiwan

Ching-Tai Chen

Affiliation Institute of Information Science, Academia Sinica, Taipei 11529, Taiwan

T. Mamie Lih

Affiliations Bioinformatics Program, Taiwan International Graduate Program, Academia Sinica, Taipei 11529, Taiwan, Institute of Biomedical Informatics, National Yang-Ming University, Taipei 11221, Taiwan, Institute of Information Science, Academia Sinica, Taipei 11529, Taiwan

Ke-Shiuan Lynn

Affiliation Department of Mathematics, Fu Jen Catholic University, New Taipei City 24205, Taiwan

Chiun-Gung Juo

Affiliation Molecular Medicine Research Center, Chang Gung University, Taoyuan 33302, Taiwan

Wen-Lian Hsu

Affiliation Institute of Information Science, Academia Sinica, Taipei 11529, Taiwan

Ting-Yi Sung

tsung@iis.sinica.edu.tw

Affiliation Institute of Information Science, Academia Sinica, Taipei 11529, Taiwan

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: H-YC T-YS. Performed the experiments: C-GJ. Analyzed the data: H-YC C-TC K-SL TML. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: H-YC C-TC C-GJ. Wrote the paper: H-YC T-YS. Helped revise the manuscript: TML W-LH.