About the Authors

Shakti Gupta

Affiliation Department of Bioengineering, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, California, United States of America

Mano Ram Maurya

Affiliation Department of Bioengineering, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, California, United States of America

Shankar Subramaniam

shankar@ucsd.edu

Affiliations Department of Bioengineering, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, California, United States of America, Department of Chemistry, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, California, United States of America, Department of Biochemistry, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, California, United States of America, Cellular & Molecular Medicine, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, California, United States of America, Graduate Program in Bioinformatics, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, California, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Analyzed the data: SG MRM. Wrote the paper: SG MRM SS. Conceived the modeling study: SS SG. Supervised the overall research: SS. Developed the algorithm for PLS: SG. Developed the algorithm for F-test: SG MRM. Wrote the computer program: SG MRM.