About the Authors

Xun Lan

Affiliation Department of Biomedical Informatics, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, United States of America

Christopher Adams

Affiliation Life Technologies, Carlsbad, California, United States of America

Mark Landers

Affiliation Life Technologies, Carlsbad, California, United States of America

Miroslav Dudas

Affiliation Life Technologies, Carlsbad, California, United States of America

Daniel Krissinger

Affiliation Life Technologies, Carlsbad, California, United States of America

George Marnellos

Affiliation Life Technologies, Carlsbad, California, United States of America

Russell Bonneville

Affiliation Department of Biomedical Informatics, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, United States of America

Maoxiong Xu

Affiliation Department of Biomedical Informatics, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, United States of America

Junbai Wang

Affiliation Department of Pathology, The Norwegian Radium Hospital, Oslo University, Oslo, Norway

Tim H.-M. Huang

Affiliation Human Cancer Genetics Program, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, United States of America

Gavin Meredith

Affiliation Life Technologies, Carlsbad, California, United States of America

Victor X. Jin

victor.jin@osumc.edu

Affiliation Department of Biomedical Informatics, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors CA, ML, MD, DK, G. Marnellos, G. Meredith are employed at Life Technologies. The others are from OSU and have no roles at Life Tech. This does not alter the authors' adherence to all the PLoS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: XL VXJ. Performed the experiments: XL CA G. Marnellos G. Meredith RB MX JW TH VXJ. Analyzed the data: XL RB MX JW VXJ. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: CA ML MD DK G. Marnellos G. Meredith. Wrote the paper: XL VXJ.