About the Authors

Jonathan Friedman

Affiliation Computational & Systems Biology Initiative, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America

Eric J. Alm

ejalm@mit.edu

Affiliations Computational & Systems Biology Initiative, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America, Departments of Biological Engineering & Civil and Environmental Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America, The Broad Institute, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: JF EJA. Performed the experiments: JF. Analyzed the data: JF. Wrote the paper: JF EJA.