About the Authors

Andreas R. Pfenning

Affiliation Program in Computational Biology and Bioinformatics, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America

Tae-Kyung Kim

Current address: Department of Neuroscience, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, Texas, United States of America

Affiliation Department of Neurobiology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

James M. Spotts

Current address: Institute for Systems Biology, Seattle, Washington, United States of America

Affiliation F.M. Kirby Neurobiology Center and Departments of Neurology and Neurobiology, The Children's Hospital Boston, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Martin Hemberg

Affiliation Department of Ophthalmology, The Children's Hospital Boston, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Dan Su

Affiliation Department of Neurobiology, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America

Anne E. West

west@neuro.duke.edu

Affiliation Department of Neurobiology, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: AW. Performed the experiments: ARP TKK JMS MH DS AW. Analyzed the data: ARP TKK JMS MH AW. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: AW. Wrote the paper: AW.