About the Authors

Kai Wang

Current address: Pfizer, San Diego, California, United States of America

Affiliation Department of Genetics, Rosetta Inpharmatics, Seattle, Washington, United States of America

Manikandan Narayanan

Affiliation Department of Genetics, Rosetta Inpharmatics, Seattle, Washington, United States of America

Hua Zhong

Current address: Sage Bionetworks, Seattle, Washington, United States of America

Affiliation Department of Genetics, Rosetta Inpharmatics, Seattle, Washington, United States of America

Martin Tompa

Affiliations Department of Genetics, Rosetta Inpharmatics, Seattle, Washington, United States of America, Department of Computer Sciences, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, United States of America

Eric E. Schadt

eric.schadt@gmail.com (EES); junshu_99@yahoo.com (JZ)

Current address: Pacific Biosciences, Menlo Park, California, United States of America

Affiliation Department of Genetics, Rosetta Inpharmatics, Seattle, Washington, United States of America

Jun Zhu

eric.schadt@gmail.com (EES); junshu_99@yahoo.com (JZ)

Current address: Sage Bionetworks, Seattle, Washington, United States of America

Affiliation Department of Genetics, Rosetta Inpharmatics, Seattle, Washington, United States of America

Competing Interests

All authors work for Merck and own Merck's stocks.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: KW EES JZ. Performed the experiments: KW JZ. Analyzed the data: KW JZ. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: KW MN HZ MT JZ. Wrote the paper: KW EES JZ.