About the Authors

Xudong Dai

To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail: xudong_dai@merck.com (XD); yudong_he@merck.com (YDH)

Affiliation Informatics, Rosetta Inpharmatics, Seattle, Washington, United States of America

Angus T. De Souza

Affiliation Preclinical Molecular Profiling, Rosetta Inpharmatics, Seattle, Washington, United States of America

Hongyue Dai

Affiliation Informatics, Rosetta Inpharmatics, Seattle, Washington, United States of America

David L Lewis

Affiliation Mirus Bio Corporation, Madison, Wisconsin, United States of America

Chang-kyu Lee

Affiliation Informatics, Rosetta Inpharmatics, Seattle, Washington, United States of America

Andy G Spencer

Affiliation Mirus Bio Corporation, Madison, Wisconsin, United States of America

Hans Herweijer

Affiliation Mirus Bio Corporation, Madison, Wisconsin, United States of America

Jim E Hagstrom

Affiliation Mirus Bio Corporation, Madison, Wisconsin, United States of America

Peter S Linsley

Affiliation Cancer Biology, Rosetta Inpharmatics, Seattle, Washington, United States of America

Douglas E Bassett

Affiliation Informatics, Rosetta Inpharmatics, Seattle, Washington, United States of America

Roger G Ulrich

Affiliation Preclinical Molecular Profiling, Rosetta Inpharmatics, Seattle, Washington, United States of America

Yudong D He

To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail: xudong_dai@merck.com (XD); yudong_he@merck.com (YDH)

Affiliation Informatics, Rosetta Inpharmatics, Seattle, Washington, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors are employees of Merck (XD, ATDS, HD, CKL, PSL, DEB, RGU, and YDH) or Mirus Bio (DLL, AGS, HH, and JEH).

Author Contributions

XD, ATDS, DLL, JEH, PSL, DEB, RGU, and YDH conceived and designed the experiments. Mirus colleagues performed the siRNA experiments, and Rosetta colleagues performed the profiling experiments at its Gene Expression Laboratory. XD, ATDS, CKL, PLS, and YDH analyzed the data. AGS, HH, HD, and CKL contributed reagents/materials/tools. XD wrote the paper.