About the Authors
- Einat I. Rabinovich
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Affiliation Dorothy P. and Richard P. Simmons Center for Interstitial Lung Disease, Division of Pulmonary, Allergy and Critical Care Medicine, University of Pittsburgh, School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America
- Maria G. Kapetanaki
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Affiliation Dorothy P. and Richard P. Simmons Center for Interstitial Lung Disease, Division of Pulmonary, Allergy and Critical Care Medicine, University of Pittsburgh, School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America
- Israel Steinfeld
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Affiliation Department of Computer Sciences, Technion – Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel
- Kevin F. Gibson
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Affiliation Dorothy P. and Richard P. Simmons Center for Interstitial Lung Disease, Division of Pulmonary, Allergy and Critical Care Medicine, University of Pittsburgh, School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America
- Kusum V. Pandit
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Affiliation Dorothy P. and Richard P. Simmons Center for Interstitial Lung Disease, Division of Pulmonary, Allergy and Critical Care Medicine, University of Pittsburgh, School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America
- Guoying Yu
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Affiliation Dorothy P. and Richard P. Simmons Center for Interstitial Lung Disease, Division of Pulmonary, Allergy and Critical Care Medicine, University of Pittsburgh, School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America
- Zohar Yakhini
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Affiliations Department of Computer Sciences, Technion – Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel, Agilent Laboratories, Tel-Aviv, Israel
- Naftali Kaminski
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* E-mail: kaminskin@upmc.edu
Affiliation Dorothy P. and Richard P. Simmons Center for Interstitial Lung Disease, Division of Pulmonary, Allergy and Critical Care Medicine, University of Pittsburgh, School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Competing Interests
The authors have read the journal’s policy and have the following conflicts: Dr. Yakhini is employed at Agilent Laboratories and his work on the manuscript was funded by Agilent. There are no patents, products in development or marketed products to declare. Dr Yakhini’s employment at Agilent had no impact on the design of the study and does not alter the authors' adherence to all the PLoS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.
Author Contributions
Conceived and designed the experiments: EIR NK KFG. Performed the experiments: EIR. Analyzed the data: ZY IS EIR NK MGK. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: KVP GY KFG. Wrote the paper: EIR MGK NK. Sample selection: KFG EIR NK.