About the Authors

Yuko Fujita

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Writing – original draft

Affiliation Department of Applied Biological Science, Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology, Fuchu, Tokyo, Japan

Panpaki Seekaki

Roles Methodology

Affiliation Nihon BioData Corporation, Takatsu-ku, Kawasaki, Kanagawa, Japan

Norichika Ogata

Contributed equally to this work with: Norichika Ogata, Kazuhiro Chiba

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Software, Visualization, Writing – original draft

norichik@nbiodata.com (NO); chiba@cc.tuat.ac.jp (KC)

Affiliation Chitose Bio Evolution Pte. Ltd. The Central Singapore, Singapore

Kazuhiro Chiba

Contributed equally to this work with: Norichika Ogata, Kazuhiro Chiba

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition

norichik@nbiodata.com (NO); chiba@cc.tuat.ac.jp (KC)

Affiliation Department of Applied Biological Science, Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology, Fuchu, Tokyo, Japan

Competing Interests

Ogata is a member of a commercial company: Nihon BioData Corporation (NBD). The author NO is filing a patent: Japan Patent P2012-224598. This does not alter the authors’ adherence to PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.