About the Authors

Xiujuan Wang

Contributed equally to this work with: Xiujuan Wang, Bram Thijssen

Affiliations Department of Biological Statistics and Computational Biology, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, United States of America, Weill Institute for Cell and Molecular Biology, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, United States of America

Bram Thijssen

Contributed equally to this work with: Xiujuan Wang, Bram Thijssen

Affiliation Department of Bioinformatics, Maastricht University, Maastricht, The Netherlands

Haiyuan Yu

haiyuan.yu@cornell.edu

Affiliations Department of Biological Statistics and Computational Biology, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, United States of America, Weill Institute for Cell and Molecular Biology, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Wrote the paper: XW HY. Conceived the study and designed all analyses: HY. Performed all computational analyses, interpreted the results and prepared all figures: XW. Participated in initial data collection and computational analyses: BT.