About the Authors

Zhuo Wang

Affiliations Key laboratory for the Genetics of Developmental and Neuropsychiatric Disorders (Ministry of Education), Bio-X Institutes, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, China, School of Life Sciences and Biotechnology, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, China, Institute for Systems Biology, Seattle, Washington, United States of America

Samuel A. Danziger

Affiliations Institute for Systems Biology, Seattle, Washington, United States of America, Center for Infectious Disease Research, Seattle, Washington, United States of America

Benjamin D. Heavner

Affiliations Institute for Systems Biology, Seattle, Washington, United States of America, Department of Biostatistics, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, United States of America

Shuyi Ma

Affiliations Institute for Systems Biology, Seattle, Washington, United States of America, Center for Infectious Disease Research, Seattle, Washington, United States of America, Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, Illinois, United States of America

Jennifer J. Smith

Affiliation Institute for Systems Biology, Seattle, Washington, United States of America

Song Li

Affiliation Institute for Systems Biology, Seattle, Washington, United States of America

Thurston Herricks

Affiliation Institute for Systems Biology, Seattle, Washington, United States of America

Evangelos Simeonidis

Affiliation Institute for Systems Biology, Seattle, Washington, United States of America

Nitin S. Baliga

nbaliga@systemsbiology.org (NSB); jaitchison@systemsbiology.org (JDA); nprice@systemsbiology.org (NDP)

Affiliations Institute for Systems Biology, Seattle, Washington, United States of America, Departments of Biology and Microbiology & Molecular and Cellular Biology Program, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, United States of America, Lawrence Berkeley National Lab, Berkeley, California, United States of America

John D. Aitchison

nbaliga@systemsbiology.org (NSB); jaitchison@systemsbiology.org (JDA); nprice@systemsbiology.org (NDP)

Affiliations Institute for Systems Biology, Seattle, Washington, United States of America, Center for Infectious Disease Research, Seattle, Washington, United States of America

Nathan D. Price

nbaliga@systemsbiology.org (NSB); jaitchison@systemsbiology.org (JDA); nprice@systemsbiology.org (NDP)

Affiliation Institute for Systems Biology, Seattle, Washington, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceptualization: ZW SAD BDH NSB JDA NDP. Formal analysis: ZW SAD BDH SM. Funding acquisition: NSB JDA NDP. Investigation: ZW SAD BDH SM JJS SL TH ES. Methodology: ZW SAD BDH. Project administration: ES. Resources: JJS SL TH. Software: ZW SAD BDH. Supervision: NSB JDA NDP. Writing – original draft: ZW SAD BDH SM JJS SL TH ES NSB JDA NDP. Writing – review & editing: ZW SAD BDH SM JJS SL TH ES NSB JDA NDP.