About the Authors

Peng Jia

Affiliations Key Laboratory of Systems Biology, Shanghai Institutes for Biological Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai, China, Graduate School of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai, China, Shanghai Center for Bioinformation Technology, Shanghai, China

Liming Xuan

Affiliations Shanghai Center for Bioinformation Technology, Shanghai, China, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, School of Bioengineering, East China University of Science and Technology, Shanghai, China

Lei Liu

leiliu@sibs.ac.cn (LL); ccwei@sjtu.edu.cn (CW)

Affiliations Key Laboratory of Systems Biology, Shanghai Institutes for Biological Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai, China, Graduate School of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai, China, Shanghai Center for Bioinformation Technology, Shanghai, China

Chaochun Wei

leiliu@sibs.ac.cn (LL); ccwei@sjtu.edu.cn (CW)

Affiliations Department of Bioinformatics and Biostatistics, School of Life Sciences and Biotechnology, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, China, Shanghai Center for Bioinformation Technology, Shanghai, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: CW PJ. Performed the experiments: PJ LX. Analyzed the data: PJ LX. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: CW PJ. Wrote the paper: CW PJ. Revised the manuscript: CW PJ LL. Developed and implemented the algorithm, collected datasets, and tested the system: PJ. Implemented and tested the parallel CPU (parallel) version of MetaBinG: LX. Conceived and designed the research work: PJ. Conceived, designed and directed the research project: CW.