About the Authors

Soohyun Lee

Affiliation Bioinformatics Program, Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Simon Kasif

Affiliations Bioinformatics Program, Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Department of Biomedical Engineering, Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Children's Hospital Informatics Program at Harvard-MIT Health Sciences and Technology, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Zhiping Weng

zhiping@umassmed.edu (ZW); ccantor@sequenom.com (CRC)

Affiliations Bioinformatics Program, Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Department of Biomedical Engineering, Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Biochemistry and Molecular Pharmacology, University of Massachusetts, Worcester, Massachusetts, United States of America

Charles R. Cantor

zhiping@umassmed.edu (ZW); ccantor@sequenom.com (CRC)

Affiliations Bioinformatics Program, Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Department of Biomedical Engineering, Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Sequenom Inc., San Diego, California, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: CRC. Performed the experiments: SL. Analyzed the data: SL. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: SK. Wrote the paper: SL ZW. Participated in writing the paper: SK.