About the Authors

Leonid Teytelman

Affiliation Department of Molecular and Cell Biology, California Institute of Quantitative Biosciences, University of California, Berkeley, California, United States of America

Bilge Özaydın

Affiliation Department of Molecular and Cell Biology, California Institute of Quantitative Biosciences, University of California, Berkeley, California, United States of America

Oliver Zill

Affiliation Department of Molecular and Cell Biology, California Institute of Quantitative Biosciences, University of California, Berkeley, California, United States of America

Philippe Lefrançois

Affiliation Department of Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, United States of America

Michael Snyder

Affiliation Department of Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, United States of America

Jasper Rine

Affiliation Department of Molecular and Cell Biology, California Institute of Quantitative Biosciences, University of California, Berkeley, California, United States of America

Michael B. Eisen

mbeisen@lbl.gov

Affiliations Department of Molecular and Cell Biology, California Institute of Quantitative Biosciences, University of California, Berkeley, California, United States of America, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, University of California, Berkeley, California, United States of America

Competing Interests

Michael Eisen is a co-founder of the Public Library of Science and is also on the Board of Directors.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: LT BÖ JR MBE. Performed the experiments: LT BÖ OZ PL. Analyzed the data: LT BÖ. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: BÖ OZ PL MS MBE. Wrote the paper: LT.