About the Authors

Gabriel R. A. Margarido

gramarga@usp.br (GRAM); heckerma@microsoft.com (DH)

Affiliations Microsoft Research, Los Angeles, California, United States of America, Departamento de Genética, Escola Superior de Agricultura ‘‘Luiz de Queiroz”, Universidade de São Paulo, Piracicaba, Brazil

David Heckerman

gramarga@usp.br (GRAM); heckerma@microsoft.com (DH)

Affiliation Microsoft Research, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

Competing Interests

GRAM and DH are paid employees of Microsoft. This does not alter the authors’ adherence to the PLOS Computational Biology policies on sharing data and materials.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: GRAM DH. Performed the experiments: GRAM. Analyzed the data: GRAM. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: GRAM DH. Wrote the paper: GRAM DH.