About the Authors

Wei Huang

Current address: Center for Proteomics and Bioinformatics, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio, United States of America.

Affiliations Department of Biological Science, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, Louisiana, United States of America, Center for Computation & Technology, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, Louisiana, United States of America

Joohyun Kim

Affiliation Center for Computation & Technology, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, Louisiana, United States of America

Shantenu Jha

Affiliations Center for Computation & Technology, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, Louisiana, United States of America, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Rutgers University, Piscataway, New Jersey, United States of America

Fareed Aboul-ela

faboulela@zewailcity.edu.eg

Current address: Zewail City of Science and Technology, Giza, Egypt.

Affiliation Department of Biological Science, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, Louisiana, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: JK SJ FA. Performed the experiments: WH. Analyzed the data: WH JK. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: WH JK SJ. Wrote the paper: WH FA.