About the Authors

Rosemary Braun

rbraun@northwestern.edu

Affiliations Robert H. Lurie Comprehensive Cancer Center, Northwestern University, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America, Center for Biomedical Informatics and Information Technology, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Richard Finney

Affiliation Center for Biomedical Informatics and Information Technology, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Chunhua Yan

Affiliation Center for Biomedical Informatics and Information Technology, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Qing-Rong Chen

Affiliation Center for Biomedical Informatics and Information Technology, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Ying Hu

Affiliation Center for Biomedical Informatics and Information Technology, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Michael Edmonson

Affiliation Center for Biomedical Informatics and Information Technology, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Daoud Meerzaman

Affiliation Center for Biomedical Informatics and Information Technology, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Kenneth Buetow

Affiliations Computational Science and Informatics Program, Complex Adaptive Systems Initiative, Arizona State University, Phoenix, Arizona, United States of America, Center for Biomedical Informatics and Information Technology, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: RB RF CY DM KB. Performed the experiments: RB RF CY QC. Analyzed the data: RB RF CY QC. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: RB RF CY QC YH ME. Wrote the paper: RB RF CY DM KB.