About the Authors

Cheemeng Tan

Affiliations Lane Center of Computational Biology, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America, Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of California Davis, Davis, California, United States of America

Robert Phillip Smith

Affiliations Division of Mathematics, Science and Technology, Nova Southeastern University, Fort Lauderdale, Florida, United States of America, Department of Biomedical Engineering, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America

Ming-Chi Tsai

Affiliation Lane Center of Computational Biology, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Russell Schwartz

russells@andrew.cmu.edu (RS); you@duke.edu (LY)

Affiliations Lane Center of Computational Biology, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America, Department of Biological Sciences, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Lingchong You

russells@andrew.cmu.edu (RS); you@duke.edu (LY)

Affiliations Department of Biomedical Engineering, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America, Institute for Genome Sciences and Policy, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: CT RPS RS LY. Performed the experiments: CT RPS. Analyzed the data: CT MCT. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: CT RPS LY. Wrote the paper: CT RS LY.