About the Authors

James A. Eddy

Affiliations Institute for Genomic Biology, University of Illinois, Urbana, Illinois, United States of America, Department of Bioengineering, University of Illinois, Urbana, Illinois, United States of America

Leroy Hood

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

Nathan D. Price

ndprice@illinois.edu

Affiliations Institute for Genomic Biology, University of Illinois, Urbana, Illinois, United States of America, Center for Biophysics and Computational Biology, University of Illinois, Urbana, Illinois, United States of America, Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, University of Illinois, Urbana, Illinois, United States of America

Donald Geman

Affiliations Institute for Computational Medicine, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America, Department of Applied Mathematics and Statistics, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: JAE NDP DG. Performed the experiments: JAE. Analyzed the data: JAE LH NDP DG. Wrote the paper: JAE LH NDP DG.