About the Authors

Shuixia Guo

Affiliation Department of Mathematics, Hunan Normal University, Changsha, China

Jianhua Wu

Affiliation Department of Computer Science and Mathematics, Warwick University, Coventry, United Kingdom

Mingzhou Ding

Affiliation Crayton Pruitt Family Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of Florida Gainesville, Gainesville, Florida, United States of America

Jianfeng Feng

Jianfeng.feng@warwick.ac.uk

Affiliations Department of Mathematics, Hunan Normal University, Changsha, China, Department of Computer Science and Mathematics, Warwick University, Coventry, United Kingdom, Centre for Computational System Biology, Fudan University, Shanghai, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: SG JF. Performed the experiments: JF. Analyzed the data: SG JF. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: SG JF. Wrote the paper: SG JF. Analyzed the gene data: JW. Analyzed the monkey data: MD.