About the Authors

Jonathan R. Karr

Current address: Department of Genetics and Genomic Sciences, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, New York, United States of America

Affiliation Graduate Program in Biophysics, Stanford University, Stanford, California, United States of America

Alex H. Williams

Affiliations Department of Biology, Brandeis University, Waltham, Massachusetts, United States of America, Volen Center for Complex Systems, Brandeis University, Waltham, Massachusetts, United States of America

Jeremy D. Zucker

Affiliation Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America

Andreas Raue

Current address: Merrimack Pharmaceuticals Inc., Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America

Affiliations Institute for Physics, University of Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany, Freiburg Center for Systems Biology (ZBSA), University of Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany

Bernhard Steiert

Affiliations Institute for Physics, University of Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany, Freiburg Center for Systems Biology (ZBSA), University of Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany

Jens Timmer

Affiliations Institute for Physics, University of Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany, Freiburg Center for Systems Biology (ZBSA), University of Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany, Freiburg Institute for Advanced Studies (FRIAS), University of Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany, BIOSS Centre for Biological Signalling Studies, University of Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany

Clemens Kreutz

Affiliations Institute for Physics, University of Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany, Freiburg Center for Systems Biology (ZBSA), University of Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany

DREAM8 Parameter Estimation Challenge Consortium

Membership of the DREAM8 Parameter Estimation Challenge Consortium is listed at the end of the manuscript.

Simon Wilkinson

Affiliation Numerate Inc., San Bruno, California, United States of America

Brandon A. Allgood

Affiliation Numerate Inc., San Bruno, California, United States of America

Brian M. Bot

Affiliation Sage Bionetworks, Seattle, Washington, United States of America

Bruce R. Hoff

Affiliation Sage Bionetworks, Seattle, Washington, United States of America

Michael R. Kellen

Affiliation Sage Bionetworks, Seattle, Washington, United States of America

Markus W. Covert

Affiliation Department of Bioengineering, Stanford University, Stanford, California, United States of America

Gustavo A. Stolovitzky

Affiliation IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center, Yorktown Heights, New York, United States of America

Pablo Meyer

pmeyerr@us.ibm.com

Affiliation IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center, Yorktown Heights, New York, United States of America

Competing Interests

We have read the journal's policy and have the following conflicts. PLoS Computational Biology provided prizes for the challenge winners. SW and BAA are employees of Numerate Inc., a company developing scientific cloud-computing resources. All other authors have declared that no competing interests exist.