About the Authors

Rudy Clausen

Affiliation Department of Computer Science, George Mason University, Fairfax, Virginia, United States of America

Buyong Ma

Affiliation Basic Science Program, Leidos Biomedical Research, Inc. Cancer and Inflammation Program, National Cancer Institute, Frederick, Maryland, United States of America

Ruth Nussinov

nussinor@helix.nih.gov (RN); amarda@gmu.edu (AS)

Affiliations Basic Science Program, Leidos Biomedical Research, Inc. Cancer and Inflammation Program, National Cancer Institute, Frederick, Maryland, United States of America, Sackler Institute of Molecular Medicine, Department of Human Genetics and Molecular Medicine, Sackler School of Medicine, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel

Amarda Shehu

nussinor@helix.nih.gov (RN); amarda@gmu.edu (AS)

Affiliations Department of Computer Science, George Mason University, Fairfax, Virginia, United States of America, Department of Biongineering, George Mason University, Fairfax, Virginia, United States of America, School of Systems Biology, George Mason University, Manassas, Virginia, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: RC BM RN AS. Performed the experiments: RC. Analyzed the data: RC BM AS. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: RC AS. Wrote the paper: RC BM RN AS.