About the Authors

Jianbo Gao

jbgao@pmbintelligence.com

Affiliations PMB Intelligence LLC, West Lafayette, Indiana, United States of America, LNM, Institute of Mechanics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, People's Republic of China, 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

Xiang Mao

Affiliation Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, United States of America

Mi Zhou

Affiliation Fredric G. Levin College of Law, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, United States of America

Brian Gurbaxani

Affiliation School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America

Johnny Lin

Affiliation Physics Department, North Park University, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America

Competing Interests

Author JBG 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: JBG JH BG JL. Analyzed the data: JBG JH. Wrote the paper: JBG BG JL. Collected data used in this study: XM MZ.