About the Authors

Qing-Rong Chen

chenqi@mail.nih.gov

Affiliation Center for Biomedical Informatics and Information Technology, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Rosemary Braun

Affiliations Center for Biomedical Informatics and Information Technology, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America, Biostatistics Division, Department of Preventive Medicine and Robert H. Lurie Comprehensive Cancer Center, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois, United States of America

Ying Hu

Affiliation Center for Biomedical Informatics and Information Technology, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Chunhua Yan

Affiliation Center for Biomedical Informatics and Information Technology, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Elizabeth M. Brunt

Affiliation Department of Pathology & Immunology, School of Medicine, Washington University, St Louis, Missouri, United States of America

Daoud Meerzaman

Affiliation Center for Biomedical Informatics and Information Technology, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Arun J. Sanyal

Contributed equally to this work with: Arun J. Sanyal, Kenneth Buetow

Affiliation Division of Gastroenterology, Hepatology, and Nutrition, Department of Internal Medicine, Virginia Commonwealth University Medical Center, Richmond, Virginia, United States of America

Kenneth Buetow

Contributed equally to this work with: Arun J. Sanyal, Kenneth Buetow

Affiliations Center for Biomedical Informatics and Information Technology, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America, Computational Science and Informatics Program, Complex Adaptive Systems Initiative, Arizona State University, Phoenix, Arizona, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: QRC AJS KB. Analyzed the data: QRC RB YH CY DM. Wrote the paper: QRC AJS KB. Data interpretation: CY DM EMB.