About the Authors

Jun Chen

Affiliation Genomics and Computational Biology Program, School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Kathleen Sprouffske

Affiliations Genomics and Computational Biology Program, School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America, Molecular and Cellular Oncogenesis, The Wistar Institute, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Qihong Huang

Affiliations Genomics and Computational Biology Program, School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America, Molecular and Cellular Oncogenesis, The Wistar Institute, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America, Cell and Molecular Biology Program, School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Carlo C. Maley

cmaley@alum.mit.edu

Affiliation Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center and Department of Surgery, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: JC KS QH CCM. Performed the experiments: JC. Analyzed the data: JC. Wrote the paper: JC KS QH CCM. Wrote the software: JC.