About the Authors

Steven G. Kuntz

sgkuntz@berkeley.edu

Affiliations QB3 Institute for Quantitative Biosciences, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, California, United States of America, Department of Molecular and Cell Biology, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, California, United States of America

Michael B. Eisen

Affiliations QB3 Institute for Quantitative Biosciences, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, California, United States of America, Department of Molecular and Cell Biology, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, California, United States of America, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, California, United States of America, Department of Integrative Biology, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, California, United States of America

Competing Interests

MBE is a cofounder and member of the Board of Directors of PLOS.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: SGK MBE. Performed the experiments: SGK. Analyzed the data: SGK MBE. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: SGK MBE. Wrote the paper: SGK MBE. Algorithms used in analysis: SGK.