About the Authors

Chirag J. Patel

Affiliations Department of Pediatrics and Medicine, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, California, United States of America, Stanford Center for Biomedical Informatics Research, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, California, United States of America, Lucile Packard Children's Hospital, Palo Alto, California, United States of America

Jayanta Bhattacharya

Affiliation Center For Primary Care and Outcomes Research, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, California, United States of America

Atul J. Butte

abutte@stanford.edu

Affiliations Department of Pediatrics and Medicine, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, California, United States of America, Stanford Center for Biomedical Informatics Research, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, California, United States of America, Lucile Packard Children's Hospital, Palo Alto, California, United States of America

Competing Interests

Atul Butte is or has served as a scientific advisor and/or consultant to NuMedii, Genstruct, Prevendia, Tercica, Eli Lilly and Company, and Johnson and Johnson.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: CJP JB AJB. Performed the experiments: CJP. Analyzed the data: CJP JB AJB. Wrote the paper: CJP JB AJB.