About the Authors

Jeroen de Ridder

Contributed equally to this work with: Jeroen de Ridder, Thomas Abeel

Affiliations Delft Bioinformatics Lab, Delft University of Technology, Delft, The Netherlands, Netherlands Bioinformatics Centre, The Netherlands

Thomas Abeel

Contributed equally to this work with: Jeroen de Ridder, Thomas Abeel

Affiliations Broad Institute, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America, VIB Department of Plant Systems Biology, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium

Magali Michaut

Affiliation Department of Molecular Carcinogenesis, Netherlands Cancer Institute, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Venkata P. Satagopam

Affiliations Structural and Computational Biology Unit, European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL), Heidelberg, Germany, Luxembourg Centre for Systems Biomedicine (LCSB), University of Luxembourg, Campus Belval, House of Biomedicine, Luxembourg

Nils Gehlenborg

nils@hms.harvard.edu

Affiliations Broad Institute, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Competing Interests

I have read the journal's policy and have the following conflicts. Nils Gehlenborg was a member of the ISCB Board of Directors from January 2010 to January 2011. Thomas Abeel was a member of the ISCB Board of Directors from January 2011 to January 2013.