About the Authors

Wonkuk Kim

Affiliation Department of Mathematics and Statistics, University of South Florida, Tampa, Florida, United States of America

Derek Gordon

gordon@biology.rutgers.edu

Affiliation Department of Genetics, Rutgers University, Piscataway, New Jersey, United States of America

Jonathan Sebat

Affiliation Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, Cold Spring Harbor, New York, United States of America

Kenny Q. Ye

Affiliation Department of Epidemiology and Population Health, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, New York, United States of America

Stephen J. Finch

Affiliation Department of Applied Mathematics and Statistics, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, New York, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: DG JS KY SJF. Performed the experiments: WK. Analyzed the data: WK DG SJF. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: WK DG JS KY SJF. Wrote the paper: WK DG JS KY SJF.