About the Authors

David B. Rosen

Affiliation Nodality Inc., South San Francisco, California, United States of America

Kimberly H. Harrington

Affiliation Clinical Research Division, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, Washington, United States of America

James A. Cordeiro

Affiliation Nodality Inc., South San Francisco, California, United States of America

Ling Y. Leung

Affiliation Nodality Inc., South San Francisco, California, United States of America

Santosh Putta

Affiliation Nodality Inc., South San Francisco, California, United States of America

Norman Lacayo

Affiliation Division of Pediatric Hematology/Oncology, Stanford University School of Medicine, Palo Alto, California, United States of America

George S. Laszlo

Affiliation Clinical Research Division, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, Washington, United States of America

Chelsea J. Gudgeon

Affiliation Clinical Research Division, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, Washington, United States of America

Donna E. Hogge

Affiliation Terry Fox Laboratory, British Columbia Cancer Agency, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Rachael E. Hawtin

Affiliation Nodality Inc., South San Francisco, California, United States of America

Alessandra Cesano

alessandra.cesano@nodality.com

Joint Senior Authors

Affiliation Nodality Inc., South San Francisco, California, United States of America

Roland B. Walter

Joint Senior Authors

Affiliations Clinical Research Division, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, Washington, United States of America, Division of Hematology/Department of Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, United States of America, Department of Epidemiology, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, United States of America

Competing Interests

DBR, LL, JAC, SP, REH, and AC are employees and stock-holders of Nodality, Inc. Based on these data, two patents entitled METHODS FOR ANALYING DRUG RESPONSE were filed by Nodality Inc. on Oct 19th, 2009 (USPTO Application No: 2/581,536) and May 1st, 2012 (USPTO Application No: 61/640794). RBW is a consultant for and receives research funding from Seattle Genetics Inc. KHH, GSL, NL, and DEH declare no potential conflicts of interest. This does not alter the authors’ adherence to all the PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: DBR REH AC RBW. Performed the experiments: DBR KHH JAC LL GSL CJG. Analyzed the data: DBR REH AC RBW LL JAC SP. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: NL DH. Wrote the paper: DBR REH AC RBW NL DH.