About the Authors

Wei Zhang

Affiliation Department of Computer Science and Engineering, University of Minnesota Twin Cities, Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States of America

Takayo Ota

Affiliation Department of Laboratory Medicine and Experimental Pathology, Mayo Clinic College of Medicine, Rochester, Minnesota, United States of America

Viji Shridhar

Affiliation Department of Laboratory Medicine and Experimental Pathology, Mayo Clinic College of Medicine, Rochester, Minnesota, United States of America

Jeremy Chien

Affiliation Department of Laboratory Medicine and Experimental Pathology, Mayo Clinic College of Medicine, Rochester, Minnesota, United States of America

Baolin Wu

Affiliation Division of Biostatistics, School of Public Health, University of Minnesota Twin Cities, Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States of America

Rui Kuang

kuang@cs.umn.edu

Affiliation Department of Computer Science and Engineering, University of Minnesota Twin Cities, Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: WZ VS JC BW RK. Performed the experiments: WZ TO. Analyzed the data: WZ JC BW RK. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: TO VS JC. Wrote the paper: WZ JC BW RK.