About the Authors

Bo Liu

Contributed equally to this work with: Bo Liu, Lina L. Faller, Niels Klitgord, Varun Mazumdar

Affiliations Center for Bioinformatics and Computational Biology, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland, United States of America, Department of Computer Science, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland, United States of America

Lina L. Faller

Contributed equally to this work with: Bo Liu, Lina L. Faller, Niels Klitgord, Varun Mazumdar

Affiliation Bioinformatics Program, Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Niels Klitgord

Contributed equally to this work with: Bo Liu, Lina L. Faller, Niels Klitgord, Varun Mazumdar

Affiliation Bioinformatics Program, Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Varun Mazumdar

Contributed equally to this work with: Bo Liu, Lina L. Faller, Niels Klitgord, Varun Mazumdar

Affiliation Bioinformatics Program, Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Mohammad Ghodsi

Affiliations Center for Bioinformatics and Computational Biology, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland, United States of America, Department of Computer Science, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland, United States of America

Daniel D. Sommer

Affiliation Center for Bioinformatics and Computational Biology, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland, United States of America

Theodore R. Gibbons

Affiliations Center for Bioinformatics and Computational Biology, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland, United States of America, Biological Sciences Graduate Program, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland, United States of America

Todd J. Treangen

Affiliations Center for Bioinformatics and Computational Biology, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland, United States of America, The McKusick-Nathans Institute for Genetic Medicine, The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

Yi-Chien Chang

Affiliation Bioinformatics Program, Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Shan Li

Affiliation Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

O. Colin Stine

Affiliation Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

Hatice Hasturk

Affiliation The Forysth Institute, Department of Periodontology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America

Simon Kasif

Affiliations Bioinformatics Program, Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Department of Biomedical Engineering, Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Children’s Informatics Program, Harvard-Massachusetts Institute of Technology Division of Health Sciences and Technology, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Daniel Segrè

dsegre@bu.edu (DS); mpop@umiacs.umd.edu (MP); samar@bu.edu (SA)

Affiliations Bioinformatics Program, Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Department of Biology, Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Department of Biomedical Engineering, Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Mihai Pop

dsegre@bu.edu (DS); mpop@umiacs.umd.edu (MP); samar@bu.edu (SA)

Affiliations Center for Bioinformatics and Computational Biology, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland, United States of America, Department of Computer Science, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland, United States of America, Biological Sciences Graduate Program, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland, United States of America

Salomon Amar

dsegre@bu.edu (DS); mpop@umiacs.umd.edu (MP); samar@bu.edu (SA)

Affiliations Bioinformatics Program, Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Center for Anti-Inflammatory Therapeutics; Boston University Goldman School of Dental Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: SK DS MP SA. Performed the experiments: BL LF NK VM MG DDS TG TJT YCC SL OCS HH. Analyzed the data: SK DS MP SA. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: BL LF NK VM MG DDS TG TJT YCC SL OCS HH SK DS MP SA. Wrote the paper: BL LF NK VM MG DDS TG TJT YCC SL OCS HH SK DS MP SA.