About the Authors

Manikandan Narayanan

manikandan_narayanan@merck.com (MN); junzhu_99@yahoo.com (JZ)

Current address: Merck Research Labs, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Affiliation Department of Genetics, Rosetta Inpharmatics (Merck), Seattle, Washington, United States of America

Adrian Vetta

Affiliation Department of Mathematics and Statistics, and School of Computer Science, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada

Eric E. Schadt

Current address: Pacific Biosciences, Menlo Park, California, United States of America

Affiliation Department of Genetics, Rosetta Inpharmatics (Merck), Seattle, Washington, United States of America

Jun Zhu

manikandan_narayanan@merck.com (MN); junzhu_99@yahoo.com (JZ)

Current address: Sage Bionetworks, Seattle, Washington, United States of America

Affiliation Department of Genetics, Rosetta Inpharmatics (Merck), Seattle, Washington, United States of America

Competing Interests

All authors except the second author (AV) were employed at Rosetta Inpharmatics (Merck) during the planning and execution of this study.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: MN AV EES JZ. Performed the experiments: MN. Analyzed the data: MN JZ. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: MN AV JZ. Wrote the paper: MN AV EES JZ.