About the Authors

Elias Cesar Araujo de Carvalho

Affiliation Research on Research Group, Department of Surgery, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America

Madhav Kishore Jayanti

Affiliation Biomedical Informatics Program, The Ohio State University College of Medicine, Columbus, Ohio, United States of America

Adelia Portero Batilana

Affiliation Research on Research Group, Department of Surgery, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America

Andreia M. O. Kozan

Affiliation Research on Research Group, Department of Surgery, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America

Maria J. Rodrigues

Affiliation Research on Research Group, Department of Surgery, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America

Jatin Shah

Affiliations Research on Research Group, Department of Surgery, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America, Duke-NUS Graduate Medical School, Singapore, Singapore

Marco R. Loures

Affiliation Rheumatology, Department of Medicine, State University of Maringá, Maringá, Brazil

Sunita Patil

Affiliation Kalpavriksha Healthcare and Research, Thane, India

Philip Payne

Affiliations Department of Biomedical Informatics, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, United States of America, Biomedical Informatics Program, The Ohio State University Center for Clinical and Translational Science, Columbus, Ohio, United States of America

Ricardo Pietrobon

rpietro@duke.edu

Affiliations Duke-NUS Graduate Medical School, Singapore, Singapore, Department of Surgery, Duke University Health System, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America, Research on Research Group, Duke University, Durham, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: ECAdC MKJ APB AK JS ML PP RP. Performed the experiments: ECAdC MKJ APB AK MR RP. Analyzed the data: ECAdC MKJ SP RP. Wrote the paper: ECAdC MKJ APB AK MR JS ML SP PP RP.