About the Authors

Charles W Sugnet

Affiliation Department of Computer Science, Baskin School of Engineering, University of California Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, California, United States of America

Karpagam Srinivasan

Affiliations Department of Molecular, Cell, and Developmental Biology, Sinsheimer Labs, University of California Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, California, United States of America , Hughes Undergraduate Research Laboratory, Thimann Laboratories, University of California Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, California, United States of America

Tyson A Clark

Affiliation Affymetrix, Santa Clara, California, United States of America

Georgeann O'Brien

Affiliation Hughes Undergraduate Research Laboratory, Thimann Laboratories, University of California Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, California, United States of America

Melissa S Cline

Current address: Pasteur Institute, Paris, France

Affiliation Affymetrix, Santa Clara, California, United States of America

Hui Wang

Affiliation Affymetrix, Santa Clara, California, United States of America

Alan Williams

Affiliation Affymetrix, Santa Clara, California, United States of America

David Kulp

Current address: Department of Computer Science, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Massachusetts, United States of America

Affiliation Affymetrix, Santa Clara, California, United States of America

John E Blume

Affiliation Affymetrix, Santa Clara, California, United States of America

David Haussler

Affiliation Department of Computer Science, Baskin School of Engineering, University of California Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, California, United States of America

Manuel Ares Jr.

To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail: ares@biology.ucsc.edu

Affiliations Department of Molecular, Cell, and Developmental Biology, Sinsheimer Labs, University of California Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, California, United States of America , Hughes Undergraduate Research Laboratory, Thimann Laboratories, University of California Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, California, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

CWS, KS, TAC, DK, and MA conceived and designed the experiments. KS, TAC, GO, and MA performed the experiments. CWS, KS, TAC, GO, DH, and MA analyzed the data. CWS, KS, TAC, MSC, HW, AW, DK, JEB, DH, and MA contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools. CWS and MA wrote the paper.