About the Authors

Gustavo Glusman

To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail: Gustavo@SystemsBiology.org

Affiliation Institute for Systems Biology, Seattle, Washington, United States of America

Shizhen Qin

Affiliation Institute for Systems Biology, Seattle, Washington, United States of America

M. Raafat El-Gewely

Affiliation Institute of Medical Biology, University of Tromsø, Tromsø, Norway

Andrew F Siegel

Affiliation Departments of Management Science, Finance and Statistics, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, United States of America

Jared C Roach

Affiliation Institute for Systems Biology, Seattle, Washington, United States of America

Leroy Hood

Affiliation Institute for Systems Biology, Seattle, Washington, United States of America

Arian F. A Smit

Affiliation Institute for Systems Biology, Seattle, Washington, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

GG and AFAS conceived and designed the experiments. GG, SQ, and MREG performed the experiments. FF, AFS, and JCR analyzed the data. LH contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools. GG and AFAS wrote the paper.