About the Authors

Sarah Djebali

Contributed equally to this work with: Sarah Djebali, Julien Lagarde, Philipp Kapranov, Vincent Lacroix

Affiliation Bioinformatics and Genomics, Centre for Genomic Regulation and Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain

Julien Lagarde

Contributed equally to this work with: Sarah Djebali, Julien Lagarde, Philipp Kapranov, Vincent Lacroix

Affiliation Bioinformatics and Genomics, Centre for Genomic Regulation and Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain

Philipp Kapranov

Contributed equally to this work with: Sarah Djebali, Julien Lagarde, Philipp Kapranov, Vincent Lacroix

Current address: Helicos BioSciences Corporation, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America

Affiliation Affymetrix Inc., Santa Clara, California, United States of America

Vincent Lacroix

Contributed equally to this work with: Sarah Djebali, Julien Lagarde, Philipp Kapranov, Vincent Lacroix

Current address: Université Lyon 1, CNRS, UMR5558, Laboratoire de Biométrie et Biologie Evolutive, INRIA BAMBOO, Villeurbanne, France

Affiliation Bioinformatics and Genomics, Centre for Genomic Regulation and Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain

Christelle Borel

Affiliation Department of Genetic Medicine and Development, University of Geneva Medical School, University Hospitals of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland

Jonathan M. Mudge

Affiliation Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Hinxton, Cambridgeshire, United Kingdom

Cédric Howald

Affiliation The Center for Integrative Genomics, University of Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland

Sylvain Foissac

Current address: Integromics, S.L., Grisolía, Tres Cantos, Madrid, Spain

Affiliations Bioinformatics and Genomics, Centre for Genomic Regulation and Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain, Affymetrix Inc., Santa Clara, California, United States of America

Catherine Ucla

Affiliation Department of Genetic Medicine and Development, University of Geneva Medical School, University Hospitals of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland

Jacqueline Chrast

Affiliation The Center for Integrative Genomics, University of Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland

Paolo Ribeca

Affiliation Bioinformatics and Genomics, Centre for Genomic Regulation and Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain

David Martin

Affiliation Bioinformatics and Genomics, Centre for Genomic Regulation and Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain

Ryan R. Murray

Affiliation Center for Cancer Systems Biology and Department of Cancer Biology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, and Department of Genetics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Xinping Yang

Affiliation Center for Cancer Systems Biology and Department of Cancer Biology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, and Department of Genetics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Lila Ghamsari

Affiliation Center for Cancer Systems Biology and Department of Cancer Biology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, and Department of Genetics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Chenwei Lin

Affiliation Center for Cancer Systems Biology and Department of Cancer Biology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, and Department of Genetics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Ian Bell

Affiliation Affymetrix Inc., Santa Clara, California, United States of America

Erica Dumais

Affiliation Affymetrix Inc., Santa Clara, California, United States of America

Jorg Drenkow

Affiliation Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, Cold Spring Harbor, New York, United States of America

Michael L. Tress

Affiliation Structural Biology and Biocomputing Programme, Spanish National Cancer Research Centre, Madrid, Spain

Josep Lluís Gelpí

Affiliation Institute of Research in Biomedicine and Barcelona Supercomputer Center, Joint Program on Computational Biology. Parc Científic de Barcelona, Universitat de Barcelona, Facultat de Biologia, Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain

Modesto Orozco

Affiliation Institute of Research in Biomedicine and Barcelona Supercomputer Center, Joint Program on Computational Biology. Parc Científic de Barcelona, Universitat de Barcelona, Facultat de Biologia, Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain

Alfonso Valencia

Affiliation Structural Biology and Biocomputing Programme, Spanish National Cancer Research Centre, Madrid, Spain

Nynke L. van Berkum

Affiliation Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Pharmacology, University of Massachusetts Medical School, Worcester, Massachusetts, United States of America

Bryan R. Lajoie

Affiliation Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Pharmacology, University of Massachusetts Medical School, Worcester, Massachusetts, United States of America

Marc Vidal

Affiliation Center for Cancer Systems Biology and Department of Cancer Biology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, and Department of Genetics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

John Stamatoyannopoulos

Affiliation University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, United States of America

Philippe Batut

Affiliation Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, Cold Spring Harbor, New York, United States of America

Alex Dobin

Affiliation Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, Cold Spring Harbor, New York, United States of America

Jennifer Harrow

Affiliation Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Hinxton, Cambridgeshire, United Kingdom

Tim Hubbard

Affiliation Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Hinxton, Cambridgeshire, United Kingdom

Job Dekker

Affiliation Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Pharmacology, University of Massachusetts Medical School, Worcester, Massachusetts, United States of America

Adam Frankish

Affiliation Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Hinxton, Cambridgeshire, United Kingdom

Kourosh Salehi-Ashtiani

Affiliations Center for Cancer Systems Biology and Department of Cancer Biology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, and Department of Genetics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, New York University Abu Dhabi, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, and Center for Genomics and Systems Biology, Department of Biology, New York University, New York, New York, United States of America

Alexandre Reymond

Affiliation The Center for Integrative Genomics, University of Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland

Stylianos E. Antonarakis

gingeras@cshl.edu (TG); roderic.guigo@crg.ca (RG); Stylianos.Antonarakis@unige.ch (SA)

Affiliation Department of Genetic Medicine and Development, University of Geneva Medical School, University Hospitals of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland

Roderic Guigó

gingeras@cshl.edu (TG); roderic.guigo@crg.ca (RG); Stylianos.Antonarakis@unige.ch (SA)

Affiliations Bioinformatics and Genomics, Centre for Genomic Regulation and Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain, Departament de Ciènces Experimentals i de la Salut, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain

Thomas R. Gingeras

gingeras@cshl.edu (TG); roderic.guigo@crg.ca (RG); Stylianos.Antonarakis@unige.ch (SA)

Affiliations Affymetrix Inc., Santa Clara, California, United States of America, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, Cold Spring Harbor, New York, United States of America

Competing Interests

The study was partially funded by Affymetrix Inc. PK, SF, IB, ED, J.Drenkow, AD and TG were employees of Affymetrix Inc. at the time of the study. 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: TG RG SA AR KS-A J.Dekker SD JL SF MV JS. Performed the experiments: PK CB CH CU JC RM XY LG CL IB ED J.Drenkow NvB PB. Analyzed the data: SD JL VL JM SF PR DM MT JLG BL AD AF MO AV JH TH. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: PK CB CH CL. Wrote the paper: TG RG SD VL JL.