About the Authors

Yingze Zhang

Contributed equally to this work with: Yingze Zhang, Daniel Handley

zhangy@upmc.edu

Affiliation Division of Pulmonary, Allergy and Critical Care Medicine, Richard P. and Dorothy P. Simmons Center for Interstitial Lung Disease, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Daniel Handley

Contributed equally to this work with: Yingze Zhang, Daniel Handley

Affiliation Division of Pulmonary, Allergy and Critical Care Medicine, Richard P. and Dorothy P. Simmons Center for Interstitial Lung Disease, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Tommy Kaplan

Affiliations Department of Molecular and Cell Biology, California Institute for Quantitative Biosciences, University of California, Berkeley, California, United States of America, School of Computer Science and Engineering, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem, Israel

Haiying Yu

Affiliation Comprehensive Pneumology Center, University Hospital of Ludwig Maximilians University Munich, Asklepios Hospital Gauting, and Helmholtz Zentrum München, Munich, Germany

Abha S. Bais

Affiliation Department of Computational and Systems Biology, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Thomas Richards

Affiliation Division of Pulmonary, Allergy and Critical Care Medicine, Richard P. and Dorothy P. Simmons Center for Interstitial Lung Disease, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Kusum V. Pandit

Affiliation Division of Pulmonary, Allergy and Critical Care Medicine, Richard P. and Dorothy P. Simmons Center for Interstitial Lung Disease, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Qilu Zeng

Affiliation Division of Pulmonary, Allergy and Critical Care Medicine, Richard P. and Dorothy P. Simmons Center for Interstitial Lung Disease, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Panayiotis V. Benos

Affiliation Department of Computational and Systems Biology, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Nir Friedman

Affiliations School of Computer Science and Engineering, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem, Israel, School of Computer Science and Engineering, Alexander Silberman Institute of Life Sciences, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem, Israel

Oliver Eickelberg

Affiliation Comprehensive Pneumology Center, University Hospital of Ludwig Maximilians University Munich, Asklepios Hospital Gauting, and Helmholtz Zentrum München, Munich, Germany

Naftali Kaminski

Affiliation Division of Pulmonary, Allergy and Critical Care Medicine, Richard P. and Dorothy P. Simmons Center for Interstitial Lung Disease, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: NK OE YZ DH NF PVB. Performed the experiments: DH HY KVP. Analyzed the data: DH TK TR NK YZ ASB QZ. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: NK PVB YZ NF OE. Wrote the paper: YZ DH NK. Preparation of the figures: DH YZ KVP NK TK. Revised the manuscript: YZ NK TK OE KVP PVB ASB.