About the Authors

Xavier Solé

Affiliation Bioinformatics and Biostatistics Unit, Catalan Institute of Oncology, IDIBELL, L'Hospitalet, Barcelona, Spain

Núria Bonifaci

Affiliations Bioinformatics and Biostatistics Unit, Catalan Institute of Oncology, IDIBELL, L'Hospitalet, Barcelona, Spain, Translational Research Laboratory, Catalan Institute of Oncology, IDIBELL, L'Hospitalet, Barcelona, Spain

Núria López-Bigas

Affiliation Research Unit on Biomedical Informatics of IMIM/UPF, Barcelona Biomedical Research Park, Barcelona, Spain

Antoni Berenguer

Affiliation Bioinformatics and Biostatistics Unit, Catalan Institute of Oncology, IDIBELL, L'Hospitalet, Barcelona, Spain

Pilar Hernández

Affiliation Translational Research Laboratory, Catalan Institute of Oncology, IDIBELL, L'Hospitalet, Barcelona, Spain

Oscar Reina

Affiliation Unit of Infections and Cancer, CIBERESP, Epidemiology Research of Cancer Program, Catalan Institute of Oncology, IDIBELL, L'Hospitalet, Barcelona, Spain

Christopher A. Maxwell

Affiliation Translational Research Laboratory, Catalan Institute of Oncology, IDIBELL, L'Hospitalet, Barcelona, Spain

Helena Aguilar

Affiliation Translational Research Laboratory, Catalan Institute of Oncology, IDIBELL, L'Hospitalet, Barcelona, Spain

Ander Urruticoechea

Affiliation Translational Research Laboratory, Catalan Institute of Oncology, IDIBELL, L'Hospitalet, Barcelona, Spain

Silvia de Sanjosé

Affiliation Unit of Infections and Cancer, CIBERESP, Epidemiology Research of Cancer Program, Catalan Institute of Oncology, IDIBELL, L'Hospitalet, Barcelona, Spain

Francesc Comellas

Affiliation Department of Applied Mathematics IV, Technical University of Catalonia, Castelldefels, Barcelona, Spain

Gabriel Capellá

Affiliation Translational Research Laboratory, Catalan Institute of Oncology, IDIBELL, L'Hospitalet, Barcelona, Spain

Víctor Moreno

Affiliation Bioinformatics and Biostatistics Unit, Catalan Institute of Oncology, IDIBELL, L'Hospitalet, Barcelona, Spain

Miguel Angel Pujana

mapujana@ico.scs.es.

Affiliations Bioinformatics and Biostatistics Unit, Catalan Institute of Oncology, IDIBELL, L'Hospitalet, Barcelona, Spain, Translational Research Laboratory, Catalan Institute of Oncology, IDIBELL, L'Hospitalet, Barcelona, Spain

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: XS NLB MAP. Performed the experiments: XS NB NLB AB. Analyzed the data: XS NB NLB AB PH OR FC. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: CAM HA AU SdS FC GC VM MAP. Wrote the paper: MAP.