About the Authors

Pablo Freire

Affiliations Department of Bioinformatics and Computational Biology, The University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas United States of America, Laboratório Nacional de Computação Científica, Laboratório de Bioinformática, Petrópolis, Rio de Janeiro, Brasil

Marco Vilela

Affiliations Department of Bioinformatics and Computational Biology, The University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas United States of America, Instituto de Tecnologia Química e Biológica, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Lisboa, Portugal

Helena Deus

Affiliations Department of Bioinformatics and Computational Biology, The University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas United States of America, Instituto de Tecnologia Química e Biológica, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Lisboa, Portugal

Yong-Wan Kim

Affiliation Department of Neuro-Oncology, The University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas United States of America

Dimpy Koul

Affiliation Department of Neuro-Oncology, The University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas United States of America

Howard Colman

Affiliation Department of Neuro-Oncology, The University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas United States of America

Kenneth D. Aldape

Affiliation Department of Pathology, The University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas United States of America

Oliver Bogler

Affiliation Department of Neurosurgery, The University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas United States of America

W. K. Alfred Yung

Affiliation Department of Neuro-Oncology, The University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas United States of America

Kevin Coombes

Affiliation Department of Bioinformatics and Computational Biology, The University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas United States of America

Gordon B. Mills

Affiliation Department of Systems Biology, The University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Ana T. Vasconcelos

Affiliation Laboratório Nacional de Computação Científica, Laboratório de Bioinformática, Petrópolis, Rio de Janeiro, Brasil

Jonas S. Almeida

jalmeida@mdanderson.org

Affiliation Department of Bioinformatics and Computational Biology, The University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: PF WKAY KC GM ATV JSA. Performed the experiments: PF ATV. Analyzed the data: PF MV YWK DK HC KA OB WKAY ATV JSA. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: PF HFD WKAY ATV JSA. Wrote the paper: PF ATV JSA.