About the Authors

Jeffrey V. Wong

Affiliations Department of Biomedical Engineering, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America, Institute for Genome Sciences and Policy, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America

Bochong Li

Affiliations Department of Biomedical Engineering, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America, Institute for Genome Sciences and Policy, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America

Lingchong You

you@duke.edu

Affiliations Department of Biomedical Engineering, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America, Institute for Genome Sciences and Policy, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America, Center for Systems Biology, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: JVW LY. Performed the experiments: JVW. Analyzed the data: JVW BL LY. Wrote the paper: JVW LY. Performed the computer simulations: JVW. Performed calculations of KL-distance: BL. Edited the manuscript: BL.