About the Authors

Sabrina L Spencer

Contributed equally to this work with: Sabrina L Spencer, Ryan A Gerety

To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail: spencers@mit.edu

Affiliation Computational and Systems Biology, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America

Ryan A Gerety

Contributed equally to this work with: Sabrina L Spencer, Ryan A Gerety

Affiliation Department of Computer Science, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, New Mexico, United States of America

Kenneth J Pienta

Affiliation Department of Medical Oncology, University of Michigan School of Medicine, Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States of America

Stephanie Forrest

Affiliations Department of Computer Science, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, New Mexico, United States of America , Santa Fe Institute, Santa Fe, New Mexico, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

SLS, RAG, KJP, and SF conceived and designed the experiments. SLS and RAG performed the experiments. SLS and RAG analyzed the data. RAG and SF contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools. SLS and RAG wrote the paper.