About the Authors

Songjian Lu

songjian@pitt.edu

Affiliation Department of Biomedical Informatics, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Kevin N. Lu

Affiliation Department of Biomedical Informatics, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Shi-Yuan Cheng

Affiliation Department of Neurology, Northwestern Brain Tumor Institute, Center for Genetic Medicine, The Robert H. Lurie Comprehensive Cancer Center, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America

Bo Hu

Affiliation Department of Neurology, Northwestern Brain Tumor Institute, Center for Genetic Medicine, The Robert H. Lurie Comprehensive Cancer Center, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America

Xiaojun Ma

Affiliation Department of Biomedical Informatics, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Nicholas Nystrom

Affiliation Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Xinghua Lu

Affiliation Department of Biomedical Informatics, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: SL XL. Performed the experiments: SL KNL XM XL. Analyzed the data: SL XM XL. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: SL KNL XM NN XL. Wrote the paper: SL XL SYC BH.