About the Authors

Wayne Delport

Affiliation Department of Pathology, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, California, United States of America

Konrad Scheffler

Affiliation Computer Science Division, Department of Mathematical Sciences, Stellenbosch University, Stellenbosch, South Africa

Gordon Botha

Affiliation Computer Science Division, Department of Mathematical Sciences, Stellenbosch University, Stellenbosch, South Africa

Mike B. Gravenor

Affiliation School of Medicine, University of Swansea, Swansea, United Kingdom

Spencer V. Muse

Affiliation Department of Statistics, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, North Carolina, United States of America

Sergei L. Kosakovsky Pond

spond@ucsd.edu

Affiliation Department of Medicine, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, California, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: KS MBG SVM SLKP. Performed the experiments: WD GB SLKP. Analyzed the data: WD SLKP. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: MBG SLKP. Wrote the paper: WD KS SVM SLKP.