About the Authors

Ali Bashir

abashir@ucsd.edu (AB); braphael@brown.edu (BJR)

Affiliation Bioinformatics Graduate Program, University of California San Diego, San Diego, California, United States of America

Stanislav Volik

Affiliation Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America

Colin Collins

Affiliation Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America

Vineet Bafna

Affiliation Department of Computer Science and Engineering, University of California San Diego, San Diego, California, United States of America

Benjamin J. Raphael

abashir@ucsd.edu (AB); braphael@brown.edu (BJR)

Affiliation Department of Computer Science and Center for Computational Molecular Biology, Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: AB VB BR. Performed the experiments: AB. Analyzed the data: AB VB BR. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: SV CC. Wrote the paper: AB VB BR.