About the Authors

Jianbo Gao

jbgao@pmbintelligence.com

Affiliations PMB Intelligence LLC, West Lafayette, Indiana, United States of America, Department of Mechanical and Materials Engineering, Wright State University, Dayton, Ohio, United States of America

Jing Hu

Affiliation Affymetrix, Inc., Santa Clara, California, United States of America

Wen-wen Tung

Affiliation Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana, United States of America

Competing Interests

JG is an employee of PMB Intelligence LLC; JH is an employee of Affymetrix, Inc. This does not alter the authors' adherence to all the PLoS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: JG JH WT. Performed the experiments: JG JH WT. Analyzed the data: JG JH WT. Wrote the paper: JG.