About the Authors

Yang Zhang

Affiliation Center of Excellence in Bioinformatics, University at Buffalo, Buffalo, New York, United States of America

Mark E DeVries

Affiliation Center of Excellence in Bioinformatics, University at Buffalo, Buffalo, New York, United States of America

Jeffrey Skolnick

To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail: skolnick@gatech.edu

Affiliation Center of Excellence in Bioinformatics, University at Buffalo, Buffalo, New York, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

YZ, MED, and JS conceived and designed the experiments, performed the experiments, analyzed the data, contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools, and wrote the paper.