About the Authors

Kenia Whitehead

Affiliation Institute for Systems Biology, Seattle, Washington, United States of America

Min Pan

Affiliation Institute for Systems Biology, Seattle, Washington, United States of America

Ken-ichi Masumura

Affiliation Division of Genetics and Mutagenesis, National Institute of Health Science, Tokyo, Japan

Richard Bonneau

Affiliation Center for Genomics and Systems Biology, Courant Institute of Mathematical Science, Department of Computer Science, New York University, New York, New York, United States of America

Nitin S. Baliga

nbaliga@systemsbiology.org

Affiliations Institute for Systems Biology, Seattle, Washington, United States of America, Department of Microbiology and Molecular and Cellular Biology, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: KW KiM RB NSB. Performed the experiments: KW KiM MP NSB. Analyzed the data: KW KiM RB NSB. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: KW RB NSB. Wrote the paper: KW RB NSB.