About the Authors

Andrew McPherson

Affiliations Centre for Translational and Applied Genomics, BC Cancer Agency, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, School of Computing Science, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada

Fereydoun Hormozdiari

Affiliation School of Computing Science, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada

Abdalnasser Zayed

Affiliation Centre for Translational and Applied Genomics, BC Cancer Agency, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Ryan Giuliany

Affiliation Centre for Translational and Applied Genomics, BC Cancer Agency, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Gavin Ha

Affiliation Centre for Translational and Applied Genomics, BC Cancer Agency, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Mark G. F. Sun

Affiliation Centre for Translational and Applied Genomics, BC Cancer Agency, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Malachi Griffith

Affiliation Canada's Michael Smith Genome Sciences Centre, BC Cancer Agency, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Alireza Heravi Moussavi

Affiliation Centre for Translational and Applied Genomics, BC Cancer Agency, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Janine Senz

Affiliation Centre for Translational and Applied Genomics, BC Cancer Agency, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Nataliya Melnyk

Affiliation Centre for Translational and Applied Genomics, BC Cancer Agency, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Marina Pacheco

Affiliation Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada

Marco A. Marra

Affiliation Canada's Michael Smith Genome Sciences Centre, BC Cancer Agency, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Martin Hirst

Affiliation Canada's Michael Smith Genome Sciences Centre, BC Cancer Agency, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Torsten O. Nielsen

Affiliation Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada

S. Cenk Sahinalp

Affiliation School of Computing Science, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada

David Huntsman

Affiliations Centre for Translational and Applied Genomics, BC Cancer Agency, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada

Sohrab P. Shah

sshah@bccrc.ca

Affiliations Centre for Translational and Applied Genomics, BC Cancer Agency, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada, Department of Molecular Oncology, BC Cancer Agency, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: AM AZ MAM MH TON SCS DH SPS. Performed the experiments: AM. Analyzed the data: AM. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: AM. Wrote the paper: AM SPS. Assisted with algorithm development: FH. Software development: RG MGFS. Copy number variation analysis: GH. Development of precursor software: MG. Gene expression analysis: AHM. RT-PCR validation: JS. FISH validation: NM MP.