About the Authors

A. S. M. Ashique Mahmood

ashique@udel.edu

Affiliation Department of Computer and Information Sciences, University of Delaware, Newark, Delaware, United States of America

Tsung-Jung Wu

Affiliation Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Medicine, George Washington University, Washington, District of Columbia, United States of America

Raja Mazumder

Affiliations Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Medicine, George Washington University, Washington, District of Columbia, United States of America, McCormick Genomic and Proteomic Center, George Washington University, Washington, District of Columbia, United States of America

K. Vijay-Shanker

Affiliation Department of Computer and Information Sciences, University of Delaware, Newark, Delaware, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: AM KV. Performed the experiments: AM. Analyzed the data: AM KV. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: TW RM. Wrote the paper: AM RM KV.