About the Authors

Yunpeng Cai

yp.cai@siat.ac.cn (YC); yijunsun@buffalo.edu (YS)

Affiliation Shenzhen Institutes of Advanced Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shenzhen, China

Wei Zheng

Affiliation Department of Computer Science and Engineering, The State University of New York at Buffalo, Buffalo, New York, United States of America

Jin Yao

Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Immunology, The State University of New York at Buffalo, Buffalo, New York, United States of America

Yujie Yang

Affiliation Shenzhen Institutes of Advanced Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shenzhen, China

Volker Mai

Affiliation Department of Epidemiology, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, United States of America

Qi Mao

Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Immunology, The State University of New York at Buffalo, Buffalo, New York, United States of America

Yijun Sun

yp.cai@siat.ac.cn (YC); yijunsun@buffalo.edu (YS)

Affiliations Department of Computer Science and Engineering, The State University of New York at Buffalo, Buffalo, New York, United States of America, Department of Microbiology and Immunology, The State University of New York at Buffalo, Buffalo, New York, United States of America, Department of Biostatistics, The State University of New York at Buffalo, Buffalo, New York, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceptualization: YC YS. Data curation: YC YS VM JY WZ QM. Formal analysis: YC YS YY. Funding acquisition: YC YS. Investigation: YC YS VM JY WZ. Methodology: YC YS JY. Project administration: YC YS. Resources: YC YS VM JY WZ QM. Software: YC YS JY WZ QM. Supervision: YC YS. Validation: YC YS JY WZ QM. Visualization: YC YS. Writing – original draft: YC YS VM JY WZ QM JY. Writing – review & editing: YC YS VM JY WZ QM JY.