About the Authors

Alexander Statnikov

Affiliation Discovery Systems Laboratory, Department of Biomedical Informatics, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee, United States of America

Chun Li

Affiliations Department of Biostatistics, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee, United States of America, Center for Human Genetics Research, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee, United States of America

Constantin F. Aliferis

To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail: constantin.aliferis@vanderbilt.edu.

Affiliations Discovery Systems Laboratory, Department of Biomedical Informatics, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee, United States of America, Department of Biostatistics, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee, United States of America, Department of Cancer Biology, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: AS CA CL. Performed the experiments: AS. Analyzed the data: AS CA CL. Wrote the paper: AS.