About the Authors

Ivo D. Dinov

Affiliation Center for Computational Biology, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

Daniel Rubin

Affiliation National Center for Biomedical Ontology, Stanford University, Stanford, California, United States of America

William Lorensen

Affiliation National Alliance for Medical Imaging Computing, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America

Jonathan Dugan

Affiliation Center for Physics-based Simulation of Biological Structures, Stanford University, Stanford, California, United States of America

Jeff Ma

Affiliation Center for Computational Biology, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

Shawn Murphy

Affiliation Informatics for Integrating Biology and the Bedside, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America

Beth Kirschner

Affiliation National Center for Integrative Biomedical Informatics, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States of America

William Bug

Affiliation National Center for Microscopy Imaging Research, University of California San Diego, San Diego, California, United States of America

Michael Sherman

Affiliation Center for Physics-based Simulation of Biological Structures, Stanford University, Stanford, California, United States of America

Aris Floratos

Affiliation National Center for Multi-Scale Study of Cellular Networks, Columbia University, New York, New York, United States of America

David Kennedy

Affiliation Neuroscience Center, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

H. V. Jagadish

Affiliation National Center for Integrative Biomedical Informatics, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States of America

Jeanette Schmidt

Affiliation Center for Physics-based Simulation of Biological Structures, Stanford University, Stanford, California, United States of America

Brian Athey

Affiliation National Center for Integrative Biomedical Informatics, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States of America

Andrea Califano

Affiliation National Center for Multi-Scale Study of Cellular Networks, Columbia University, New York, New York, United States of America

Mark Musen

Affiliation National Center for Biomedical Ontology, Stanford University, Stanford, California, United States of America

Russ Altman

Affiliation Center for Physics-based Simulation of Biological Structures, Stanford University, Stanford, California, United States of America

Ron Kikinis

Affiliation National Alliance for Medical Imaging Computing, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America

Isaac Kohane

Affiliation Informatics for Integrating Biology and the Bedside, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America

Scott Delp

Affiliation Center for Physics-based Simulation of Biological Structures, Stanford University, Stanford, California, United States of America

D. Stott Parker

Affiliation Center for Computational Biology, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

Arthur W. Toga

toga@loni.ucla.edu

Affiliation Center for Computational Biology, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: RA AC AT BA WB MM IK WL JD JM SM BK MS AF JS RK SD DP ID DR DK HJ. Performed the experiments: ID DR. Analyzed the data: ID. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: AT JM BK DP ID. Wrote the paper: RA AC AT BA WB MM IK WL JD JM SM BK MS AF JS RK SD DP ID DR DK HJ.