About the Authors
- Yan Fu
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Affiliations Department of Biological Sciences, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg, Virginia, United States of America, Interdisciplinary PhD Program of Genetics, Bioinformatics and Computational Biology, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg, Virginia, United States of America
- Trevor Glaros
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Affiliation Department of Biological Sciences, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg, Virginia, United States of America
- Meng Zhu
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Affiliation School of Computing, Clemson University, Clemson, South Carolina, United States of America
- Ping Wang
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Affiliation Department of Biological Sciences, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg, Virginia, United States of America
- Zhanghan Wu
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Affiliations Department of Biological Sciences, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg, Virginia, United States of America, Interdisciplinary PhD Program of Genetics, Bioinformatics and Computational Biology, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg, Virginia, United States of America
- John J. Tyson
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Affiliation Department of Biological Sciences, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg, Virginia, United States of America
- Liwu Li
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* E-mail: lwli@vt.edu (LL); jxing@vt.edu (JX)
Affiliation Department of Biological Sciences, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg, Virginia, United States of America
- Jianhua Xing
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* E-mail: lwli@vt.edu (LL); jxing@vt.edu (JX)
Affiliation Department of Biological Sciences, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg, Virginia, United States of America
Competing Interests
The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.
Author Contributions
Conceived and designed the experiments: JJT LL JX. Analyzed the data: YF MZ PW ZW JX. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: YF MZ PW ZW JJT JX. Wrote the paper: YF JJT LL JX. Performed computational research: YF TG MZ PW ZW JX. Performed experimental research: TG LL.