About the Authors

Nitin Bhardwaj

Affiliation Program in Computational Biology and Bioinformatics, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, United States of America

Matthew B. Carson

Affiliation Bioinformatics Program, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America

Alexej Abyzov

Affiliation Program in Computational Biology and Bioinformatics, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, United States of America

Koon-Kiu Yan

Affiliation Program in Computational Biology and Bioinformatics, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, United States of America

Hui Lu

Affiliation Bioinformatics Program, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America

Mark B. Gerstein

mark.gerstein@yale.edu

Affiliations Program in Computational Biology and Bioinformatics, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, United States of America, Department of Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, United States of America, Department of Computer Science, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: NB HL MBG. Performed the experiments: NB KKY. Analyzed the data: NB MBC AA KKY. Wrote the paper: NB MBC AA HL MBG.