About the Authors

Jie Zhang

jzhang080@gmail.com

Affiliations Center for Computational Systems Biology, Fudan University, Shanghai, People's Republic of China, Department of Electronic and Information Engineering, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong, People's Republic of China

Kai Zhang

Affiliation Life Science Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California, United States of America

Jianfeng Feng

Affiliations Center for Computational Systems Biology, Fudan University, Shanghai, People's Republic of China, Department of Computer Science and Mathematics, Warwick University, Coventry, United Kingdom

Michael Small

Affiliation Department of Electronic and Information Engineering, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong, People's Republic of China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: JZ KZ JF MS. Analyzed the data: JZ KZ. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: JZ KZ JF MS. Wrote the paper: JZ KZ JF MS.