About the Authors

Jaeyun Sung

Current address: Asia Pacific Center for Theoretical Physics, Pohang, Gyeongbuk, Republic of Korea.

Affiliations Institute for Systems Biology, Seattle, Washington, United States of America, Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, University of Illinois, Urbana, Illinois, United States of America

Pan-Jun Kim

Affiliations Asia Pacific Center for Theoretical Physics, Pohang, Gyeongbuk, Republic of Korea, Department of Physics, POSTECH, Pohang, Gyeongbuk, Republic of Korea

Shuyi Ma

Affiliations Institute for Systems Biology, Seattle, Washington, United States of America, Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, University of Illinois, Urbana, Illinois, United States of America

Cory C. Funk

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

Andrew T. Magis

Affiliations Institute for Systems Biology, Seattle, Washington, United States of America, Center for Biophysics and Computational Biology, University of Illinois, Urbana, Illinois, United States of America

Yuliang Wang

Affiliations Institute for Systems Biology, Seattle, Washington, United States of America, Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, University of Illinois, Urbana, Illinois, United States of America

Leroy Hood

Affiliation Institute for Systems Biology, Seattle, Washington, 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

Nathan D. Price

nprice@systemsbiology.org

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

Competing Interests

I have read the journal's policy and have the following conflict: The authors disclose an intent to file a patent surrounding the marker panel of the brain cancer classifiers.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: JS DG NDP. Performed the experiments: JS. Analyzed the data: JS PJK CCF LH DG NDP. Wrote the paper: JS DG NDP. Performed all pre-processing of the raw microarray data files: ATM. Improved the MATLAB code: SM YW.