About the Authors

Michael Lawrence

michafla@gene.com

Affiliation Bioinformatics and Computational Biology, Genentech, Inc., South San Francisco, California, United States of America

Wolfgang Huber

Affiliations European Molecular Biology Laboratory Genome Biology Unit, Heidelberg, Germany, The European Bioinformatics Institute, Cambridge, United Kingdom

Hervé Pagès

Affiliation Computational Biology, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, Washington, United States of America

Patrick Aboyoun

Affiliation Computational Biology, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, Washington, United States of America

Marc Carlson

Affiliation Computational Biology, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, Washington, United States of America

Robert Gentleman

Affiliation Bioinformatics and Computational Biology, Genentech, Inc., South San Francisco, California, United States of America

Martin T. Morgan

Affiliation Computational Biology, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, Washington, United States of America

Vincent J. Carey

Affiliation Channing Division of Network Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Analyzed the data: ML VJC. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: ML HP PA MC MTM. Wrote the paper: ML WH RG MTM VJC.