About the Authors

Salim Akhter Chowdhury

Affiliations Joint Carnegie Mellon/University of Pittsburgh Ph.D. Program in Computational Biology, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America, Lane Center for Computational Biology, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Stanley E. Shackney

Affiliation Intelligent Oncotherapeutics, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Kerstin Heselmeyer-Haddad

Affiliation Genetics Branch, Center for Cancer Research, NCI, NIH, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Thomas Ried

Affiliation Genetics Branch, Center for Cancer Research, NCI, NIH, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Alejandro A. Schäffer

Affiliation Computational Biology Branch, NCBI, NIH, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Russell Schwartz

russells@andrew.cmu.edu

Affiliations Lane Center for Computational Biology, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America, Department of Biological Sciences, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Competing Interests

Dr Shackney is an employee of Intelligent Oncotherapeutics. All other authors declare that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: SAC SES KHH TR AAS RS. Performed the experiments: SAC AAS RS. Analyzed the data: SAC SES KHH TR AAS RS. Wrote the paper: SAC SES KHH TR AAS RS. Designed the software used in the analysis: SAC AAS RS.