About the Authors

Wei-Yi Cheng

Affiliations Center for Computational Biology and Bioinformatics, Columbia University, New York, New York, United States of America, Department of Electrical Engineering, Columbia University, New York, New York, United States of America

Jessica J. Kandel

Affiliations Institute for Cancer Genetics, Columbia University, New York, New York, United States of America, Department of Surgery, Columbia University, New York, New York, United States of America, Department of Pediatrics, Columbia University, New York, New York, United States of America

Darrell J. Yamashiro

Affiliations Institute for Cancer Genetics, Columbia University, New York, New York, United States of America, Department of Pediatrics, Columbia University, New York, New York, United States of America, Department of Pathology and Cell Biology, Columbia University, New York, New York, United States of America

Peter Canoll

Affiliations Department of Pathology and Cell Biology, Columbia University, New York, New York, United States of America, Columbia Stem Cell Initiative, Columbia University, New York, New York, United States of America

Dimitris Anastassiou

da8@columbia.edu

Affiliations Center for Computational Biology and Bioinformatics, Columbia University, New York, New York, United States of America, Department of Electrical Engineering, Columbia University, New York, New York, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: WYC DA. Performed the experiments: WYC DA. Analyzed the data: WYC JJK DJY PC DA. Wrote the paper: DA.