About the Authors

Andrey Rzhetsky

Contributed equally to this work with: Andrey Rzhetsky, Tian Zheng, Chani Weinreb

To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail: andrey.rzhetsky@dbmi.columbia.edu

Affiliations Department of Biomedical Informatics, Center for Computational Biology and Bioinformatics and Joint Centers for Systems Biology, Columbia University, New York, New York, United States of America, Judith P. Sulzberger MD Columbia Genome Center and Department of Biology, Columbia University, New York, New York, United States of America

Tian Zheng

Contributed equally to this work with: Andrey Rzhetsky, Tian Zheng, Chani Weinreb

Affiliation Department of Statistics, Columbia University, New York, New York, United States of America

Chani Weinreb

Contributed equally to this work with: Andrey Rzhetsky, Tian Zheng, Chani Weinreb

Affiliation Department of Biomedical Informatics, Center for Computational Biology and Bioinformatics and Joint Centers for Systems Biology, Columbia University, New York, New York, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: AR TZ CW. Performed the experiments: AR CW. Analyzed the data: AR TZ CW. Wrote the paper: AR.