About the Authors

Silpa Suthram

Affiliations Stanford Center for Biomedical Informatics Research, Stanford University, Stanford, California, United States of America, Department of Pediatrics, Stanford University, Stanford, California, United States of America, Lucile Packard Children's Hospital, Palo Alto, California, United States of America

Joel T. Dudley

Affiliations Stanford Center for Biomedical Informatics Research, Stanford University, Stanford, California, United States of America, Department of Pediatrics, Stanford University, Stanford, California, United States of America, Lucile Packard Children's Hospital, Palo Alto, California, United States of America

Annie P. Chiang

Affiliations Stanford Center for Biomedical Informatics Research, Stanford University, Stanford, California, United States of America, Department of Pediatrics, Stanford University, Stanford, California, United States of America, Lucile Packard Children's Hospital, Palo Alto, California, United States of America

Rong Chen

Affiliations Stanford Center for Biomedical Informatics Research, Stanford University, Stanford, California, United States of America, Department of Pediatrics, Stanford University, Stanford, California, United States of America, Lucile Packard Children's Hospital, Palo Alto, California, United States of America

Trevor J. Hastie

Affiliation Department of Statistics, Stanford University, Stanford, California, United States of America

Atul J. Butte

abutte@stanford.edu

Affiliations Stanford Center for Biomedical Informatics Research, Stanford University, Stanford, California, United States of America, Department of Pediatrics, Stanford University, Stanford, California, United States of America, Lucile Packard Children's Hospital, Palo Alto, California, United States of America

Competing Interests

Atul J. Butte is or has served as a scientific advisor and/or consultant to NuMedii, Genstruct, Prevendia, Tercica, Eli Lilly and Company, and Johnson & Johnson.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: SS. Performed the experiments: SS. Analyzed the data: SS. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: SS. Wrote the paper: SS. Assembled the annotated microarray experiments from GEO: JTD. Compiled the drug data from DrugDex: APC. Compiled the Disease Gene List: RC. Offered critical guidance in the statistical approach: TJH. Conceived the study: AB.