About the Authors

Shaun Mahony

To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail: shaun.mahony@ccbb.pitt.edu (SM); benos@pitt.edu (PVB)

Affiliations Department of Computational Biology, School of Medicine, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America , Department of Computer Science, Faculty of Arts and Sciences, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Philip E Auron

Affiliations Department of Biological Sciences, Duquesne University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America , Department of Molecular Genetics and Biochemistry, School of Medicine, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Panayiotis V Benos

To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail: shaun.mahony@ccbb.pitt.edu (SM); benos@pitt.edu (PVB)

Affiliations Department of Computational Biology, School of Medicine, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America , Department of Human Genetics, Graduate School of Public Health, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America , University of Pittsburgh Cancer Institute, School of Medicine, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

SM and PVB conceived and designed the experiments. SM performed the experiments and contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools. SM, PEA, and PVB analyzed the data and wrote the paper.