About the Authors

Nan Zhao

Current address: Department of Basic Sciences, College of Veterinary Medicine, Mississippi State University, Mississippi, United States of America

Affiliation Informatics Institute, University of Missouri, Columbia, Missouri, United States of America

Jing Ginger Han

Affiliation Informatics Institute, University of Missouri, Columbia, Missouri, United States of America

Chi-Ren Shyu

Affiliations Informatics Institute, University of Missouri, Columbia, Missouri, United States of America, Department of Computer Science, University of Missouri, Columbia, Missouri, United States of America

Dmitry Korkin

korkin@korkinlab.org, dmitry.korkin@gmail.com

Affiliations Informatics Institute, University of Missouri, Columbia, Missouri, United States of America, Department of Computer Science, University of Missouri, Columbia, Missouri, United States of America, Bond Life Science Center, University of Missouri, Columbia, Missouri, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: NZ DK. Performed the experiments: NZ DK. Analyzed the data: NZ CRS DK. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: NZ JGH. Wrote the paper: NZ DK.