About the Authors

Takeshi Hase

Contributed equally to this work with: Takeshi Hase, Hiroshi Tanaka

Affiliation Department of Bioinformatics, Medical Research Institute, Tokyo Medical and Dental University, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo, Japan

Hiroshi Tanaka

Contributed equally to this work with: Takeshi Hase, Hiroshi Tanaka

kitano@sbi.jp (HK); tanaka@cim.tmd.ac.jp (HT)

Affiliation Department of Bioinformatics, Graduate School of Biomedical Science, Tokyo Medical and Dental University, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo, Japan

Yasuhiro Suzuki

Affiliation Department of Complex Systems Science, Graduate School of Information Science, Nagoya University, Nagoya, Aichi, Japan

So Nakagawa

Affiliation Center for Information Biology and DNA Databank of Japan, National Institute of Genetics, Mishima, Shizuoka, Japan

Hiroaki Kitano

kitano@sbi.jp (HK); tanaka@cim.tmd.ac.jp (HT)

Affiliations Sony Computer Science Laboratories, Shinagawa, Tokyo, Japan, The Systems Biology Institute, Minato, Tokyo, Japan, Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology, Kunigami, Okinawa, Japan

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: TH HT YS SN HK. Performed the experiments: TH YS SN. Analyzed the data: TH HT YS SN. Wrote the paper: TH HK.