About the Authors

Avinash Kumar Shanmugam

Affiliation Department of Computational Medicine and Bioinformatics, University of Michigan Medical School, Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States of America

Geoff Macintyre

Affiliation NICTA Victoria Research Laboratory, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

Magali Michaut

Affiliation Computational Cancer Biology, Netherlands Cancer Institute, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Thomas Abeel

tabeel@broadinstitute.org

Affiliations VIB Department of Plant Systems Biology, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America

Competing Interests

I have read the journal's policy and have the following conflicts. Thomas Abeel was a member of the ISCB Board of Directors from January 2011 to January 2013. Avinash K. Shanmugan is a member of the ISCB Board of Directors from January 2013.