About the Authors

Alon Kaufman

Contributed equally to this work with: Alon Kaufman, Alon Keinan

To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail: kalon@post.tau.ac.il (AK), ruppin@post.tau.ac.il (ER)

Affiliation Interdisciplinary Center for Neural Computation, Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel

Alon Keinan

Contributed equally to this work with: Alon Kaufman, Alon Keinan

Affiliation School of Computer Science, Tel-Aviv University, Tel-Aviv, Israel

Isaac Meilijson

Affiliation School of Mathematical Sciences, Tel-Aviv University, Tel-Aviv, Israel

Martin Kupiec

Affiliation Department of Molecular Microbiology and Biotechnology, Tel-Aviv University, Tel-Aviv, Israel

Eytan Ruppin

To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail: kalon@post.tau.ac.il (AK), ruppin@post.tau.ac.il (ER)

Affiliations School of Computer Science, Tel-Aviv University, Tel-Aviv, Israel , School of Medicine, Tel-Aviv University, Tel-Aviv, Israel

Competing Interests

A. Keinan, I. Meilijson and E. Ruppin are the authors of a pending PCT patent entitled “A New Method for Multi-Silencing Analysis.”

Author Contributions

M. Kupiec conceived and designed the experiments. M. Kupiec performed the experiments. A. Kaufman analyzed the data. A. Kaufman, A. Keinan, I. Meilijson, M. Kupiec, and E. Ruppin contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools. A. Kaufman, A. Keinan, M. Kupiec, and E. Ruppin wrote the paper.