About the Authors

Jyh-Ying Peng

Contributed equally to this work with: Jyh-Ying Peng, Chung-Chih Lin

jypeng@ym.edu.tw (JYP); chunnan@iis.sinica.edu.tw (CNH)

Affiliations Institute of Biomedical Informatics, National Yang-Ming University, Taipei, Taiwan, Taipei City Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan

Chung-Chih Lin

Contributed equally to this work with: Jyh-Ying Peng, Chung-Chih Lin

Affiliation Department of Life Sciences and Institute of Genome Sciences, National Yang-Ming University, Taipei, Taiwan

Yen-Jen Chen

Affiliation Institute of Information Science, Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan

Lung-Sen Kao

Affiliation Department of Life Sciences and Institute of Genome Sciences, National Yang-Ming University, Taipei, Taiwan

Young-Chau Liu

Affiliation College of Liberal Education, Shu-Te University, Kaohsiung City, Taiwan

Chung-Chien Chou

Affiliation Department of Life Sciences and Institute of Genome Sciences, National Yang-Ming University, Taipei, Taiwan

Yi-Hung Huang

Affiliations Institute of Information Science, Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan, Department of Computer Science and Information Engineering, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan

Fang-Rong Chang

Affiliation Graduate Institute of Natural Products, Kaohsiung Medical University, Kaohsiung, Taiwan

Yang-Chang Wu

Affiliations Graduate Institute of Natural Products, Kaohsiung Medical University, Kaohsiung, Taiwan, Graduate Institute of Integrated Medicine, China Medical University, Taichung, Taiwan

Yuh-Show Tsai

Affiliation Graduate Institute of Biomedical Engineering, Chung-Yuan Christian University, Zhongli City, Taiwan

Chun-Nan Hsu

jypeng@ym.edu.tw (JYP); chunnan@iis.sinica.edu.tw (CNH)

Affiliations Institute of Information Science, Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan, Information Sciences Institute, University of Southern California, Marina del Rey, California, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: JYP CCL LSK YCL. Performed the experiments: CCL CCC. Analyzed the data: JYP YJC YHH YST CNH. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: FRC YCW. Wrote the paper: JYP CCL CNH.