About the Authors

Elena J Edelman

Affiliations Institute for Genome Sciences and Policy, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America , Computational Biology and Bioinformatics Program, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America

Justin Guinney

Affiliations Institute for Genome Sciences and Policy, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America , Computational Biology and Bioinformatics Program, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America

Jen-Tsan Chi

Affiliations Institute for Genome Sciences and Policy, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America , Department of Molecular Genetics and Microbiology, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina

Phillip G Febbo

Contributed equally to this work with: Phillip G Febbo, Sayan Mukherjee

Affiliations Institute for Genome Sciences and Policy, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America , Department of Molecular Genetics and Microbiology, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina , Department of Medicine, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America

Sayan Mukherjee

Contributed equally to this work with: Phillip G Febbo, Sayan Mukherjee

To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail: sayan@stat.duke.edu

Affiliations Institute for Genome Sciences and Policy, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America , Department of Statistical Science, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America , Department of Computer Science, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

EJE analyzed the data and wrote the paper. JG contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools. JTC and PGF analyzed the data. SM conceived and designed the experiments and wrote the paper.