About the Authors

Constantin F. Aliferis

constantin.aliferis@nyumc.org

Affiliations Center of Health Informatics and Bioinformatics, New York University, New York, New York, United States of America, Department of Biomedical Informatics, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee, United States of America, Department of Biostatistics, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee, United States of America

Alexander Statnikov

Affiliation Department of Biomedical Informatics, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee, United States of America

Ioannis Tsamardinos

Affiliations Department of Biomedical Informatics, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee, United States of America, Department of Computer Science, University of Crete, Iraklio, Greece

Jonathan S. Schildcrout

Affiliation Department of Biostatistics, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee, United States of America

Bryan E. Shepherd

Affiliation Department of Biostatistics, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee, United States of America

Frank E. Harrell Jr.

Affiliation Department of Biostatistics, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: CA AS IT JSS BS FH. Performed the experiments: AS JSS FH. Analyzed the data: CA AS IT JSS BS FH. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: CA AS IT JSS BS FH. Wrote the paper: CA AS IT JSS BS FH.