About the Authors

Ethan G. Thompson

Affiliations Institute for Systems Biology, Seattle, Washington, United States of America, Seattle Biomedical Research Institute, Seattle, Washington, United States of America

Timothy Galitski

timothy.galitski@merckgroup.com

Affiliations Seattle Biomedical Research Institute, Seattle, Washington, United States of America, EMD Millipore Corporation, Billerica, Massachusetts, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: TG. Performed the experiments: EGT. Analyzed the data: EGT TG. Wrote the paper: EGT TG.