About the Authors

Lucie Laplane

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations UMR8590, CNRS & University Paris I Pantheon Sorbonne, Paris, France, UMR1270, Inserm & Gustave Roussy Cancer Campus, Villejuif, France

Anaïs Lamoureux

Roles Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation UMR8590, CNRS & University Paris I Pantheon Sorbonne, Paris, France

Harley I. Richker

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Arizona Cancer Evolution Center, Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona, United States of America, Center for Evolution and Medicine, Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona, United States of America, Biodesign Center for Biocomputing, Security and Society, Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona, United States of America, School of Life Sciences, Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona, United States of America

Gissel Marquez Alcaraz

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Arizona Cancer Evolution Center, Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona, United States of America, Center for Evolution and Medicine, Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona, United States of America, Biodesign Center for Biocomputing, Security and Society, Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona, United States of America, School of Life Sciences, Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona, United States of America

Angelo Fortunato

Roles Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Arizona Cancer Evolution Center, Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona, United States of America, Center for Evolution and Medicine, Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona, United States of America, Biodesign Center for Biocomputing, Security and Society, Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona, United States of America, School of Life Sciences, Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona, United States of America, Department of Theoretical and Applied Sciences, eCampus University, Novedrate, Italy

Zachary Shaffer

Roles Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation School of Life Sciences, Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona, United States of America

Athena Aktipis

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Arizona Cancer Evolution Center, Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona, United States of America, Center for Evolution and Medicine, Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona, United States of America, Department of Psychology, Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona, United States of America, Global Futures Lab, Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona, United States of America

Paul S. Mischel

Roles Funding acquisition, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Department of Pathology, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, California, United States of America, Sarafan ChEM-H, Stanford University, Stanford, California, United States of America

Anya Plutynski

Roles Conceptualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Philosophy, Affiliate with Division of Biological and Biomedical Sciences, Washington University in St Louis, St Louis, Missouri, United States of America

Jeffrey P. Townsend

Roles Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Department of Biostatistics, Yale School of Public Health, New Haven, Connecticut, United States of America, Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, United States of America, Program in Computational Biology and Biomedical Informatics, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, United States of America, Program in Genomics, Genetics, and Epigenetics, Yale Cancer Center, New Haven, Connecticut, United States of America

Carlo C. Maley

Roles Conceptualization, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

maley@asu.edu

Affiliations Arizona Cancer Evolution Center, Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona, United States of America, Center for Evolution and Medicine, Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona, United States of America, Biodesign Center for Biocomputing, Security and Society, Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona, United States of America, School of Life Sciences, Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona, United States of America

Competing Interests

I have read the journal's policy and the authors of this manuscript have the following competing interests: PSM is a co-founder of Boundless Bio. He has equity in the company and chairs the scientific advisory board, for which he is compensated. The remaining authors have declared that no competing interests exist.