About the Authors

Ke Tang

Affiliation Department of Bioengineering, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America

Jinfeng Zhang

jinfeng@stat.fsu.edu (JZ); jliang@uic.edu (JL)

Affiliation Department of Statistics, Florida State University, Tallahassee, Florida, United States of America

Jie Liang

jinfeng@stat.fsu.edu (JZ); jliang@uic.edu (JL)

Affiliation Department of Bioengineering, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: KT JZ JL. Performed the experiments: KT JZ. Analyzed the data: KT JZ JL. Wrote the paper: KT JZ JL.