About the Authors

Omer Acar

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

Affiliations Joint Carnegie Mellon University-University of Pittsburgh Computational Biology PhD Program, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America, Department of Computational and Systems Biology, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America, Pittsburgh Center for Evolutionary Biology and Medicine (CEBaM), University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America

She Zhang

Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Joint Carnegie Mellon University-University of Pittsburgh Computational Biology PhD Program, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America, Department of Computational and Systems Biology, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Ivet Bahar

Roles Conceptualization, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Computational and Systems Biology, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Anne-Ruxandra Carvunis

Roles Conceptualization, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

anc201@pitt.edu

Affiliations Department of Computational and Systems Biology, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America, Pittsburgh Center for Evolutionary Biology and Medicine (CEBaM), University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Competing Interests

I have read the journal’s policy and the authors of this manuscript have the following competing interests: A.-R.C. is a member of the scientific advisory board for Flagship Labs 69, Inc.