About the Authors

Smruti J. Vidwans

Affiliation CollabRx Inc., Palo Alto, California, United States of America

Keith T. Flaherty

Affiliation Massachusetts General Hospital Cancer Center, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

David E. Fisher

Affiliation Department of Dermatology, Cutaneous Biology Research Center and Melanoma Program, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Jay M. Tenenbaum

Affiliation CollabRx Inc., Palo Alto, California, United States of America

Michael D. Travers

Current address: SRI International, Bioinformatics Research Group, Menlo Park, California, United States of America

Affiliation CollabRx Inc., Palo Alto, California, United States of America

Jeff Shrager

jshrager@stanford.edu

Affiliations CollabRx Inc., Palo Alto, California, United States of America, Symbolic Systems Program (Consulting), Stanford University, Stanford, California, United States of America

Competing Interests

SJV, JMT, MDT and JS are or were employees of CollabRx, Inc. a for-profit corporation. They played intimate roles in the research and preparation of the manuscript. KTF has been a consultant to Roche/Genentech and GlaxoSmithKline. DEF has no financial or competing interests. There are no patents, products in development or marketed products to declare. This does not alter the authors'adherence to all the PLoS ONE policies on sharing data and materials, as detailed online in the guide for authors..

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: SJV KTF DEF JMT MDT JS. Performed the experiments: SJV KTF DEF JMT MDT JS. Analyzed the data: SJV KTF DEF JMT MDT JS. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: SJV KTF DEF JMT MDT JS. Wrote the paper: SJV JMT JS.