About the Authors

Aaron Brandes

Contributed equally to this work with: Aaron Brandes, Desmond S. Lun

Affiliation Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America

Desmond S. Lun

Contributed equally to this work with: Aaron Brandes, Desmond S. Lun

Affiliations Department of Computer Science and Center for Computational and Integrative Biology, Rutgers University, Camden, New Jersey, United States of America, Phenomics and Bioinformatics Research Centre, School of Mathematics and Statistics, and Australian Centre for Plant Functional Genomics, University of South Australia, Mawson Lakes, South Australia, Australia

Kuhn Ip

Affiliations Department of Computer Science and Center for Computational and Integrative Biology, Rutgers University, Camden, New Jersey, United States of America, Phenomics and Bioinformatics Research Centre, School of Mathematics and Statistics, and Australian Centre for Plant Functional Genomics, University of South Australia, Mawson Lakes, South Australia, Australia

Jeremy Zucker

Affiliations Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America, Department of Genetics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Caroline Colijn

Affiliation Department of Engineering Mathematics, University of Bristol, Bristol, United Kingdom

Brian Weiner

Affiliation Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America

James E. Galagan

jgalag@bu.edu

Affiliations Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America, Department of Biomedical Engineering and Department of Microbiology, Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: JG AB DSL. Performed the experiments: AB DSL JZ BW KI. Analyzed the data: AB DSL. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: JZ CC. Wrote the paper: AB DSL. Obtained and manipulated the gene expression data: BW. Manuscript review: JZ CC JG.