About the Authors

N. Lance Hepler

Affiliation Interdisciplinary Bioinformatics and Systems Biology Program, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, California, United States of America

Konrad Scheffler

Affiliation Department of Medicine, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, California, United States of America

Steven Weaver

Affiliation Department of Medicine, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, California, United States of America

Ben Murrell

Affiliation Department of Medicine, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, California, United States of America

Douglas D. Richman

Affiliations Department of Pathology, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, California, United States of America, San Diego Veterans Affairs Healthcare System, San Diego, California, United States of America

Dennis R. Burton

Affiliations The Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, California, United States of America, Ragon Institute of MGH, MIT, and Harvard, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Pascal Poignard

Affiliation The Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, California, United States of America

Davey M. Smith

Affiliations Department of Medicine, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, California, United States of America, San Diego Veterans Affairs Healthcare System, San Diego, California, United States of America

Sergei L. Kosakovsky Pond

spond@ucsd.edu

Affiliation Department of Medicine, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, California, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: NLH DMS SLKP. Performed the experiments: NLH SW BM SLKP. Analyzed the data: NLH KS SLKP. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: NLH KS SW DDR DRB PP DMS SLKP. Contributed to the writing of the manuscript: NLH KS SW BM DDR DRB PP DMS SLKP.