About the Authors

Jun Zhu

Contributed equally to this work with: Jun Zhu, Matthew C Wiener, Chunsheng Zhang, Arthur Fridman

Affiliation Rosetta Inpharmatics, Seattle, Washington, United States of America

Matthew C Wiener

Contributed equally to this work with: Jun Zhu, Matthew C Wiener, Chunsheng Zhang, Arthur Fridman

Affiliation Department of Applied Computer Science and Mathematics, Merck Research Laboratories, Rahway, New Jersey, United States of America

Chunsheng Zhang

Contributed equally to this work with: Jun Zhu, Matthew C Wiener, Chunsheng Zhang, Arthur Fridman

Affiliation Rosetta Inpharmatics, Seattle, Washington, United States of America

Arthur Fridman

Contributed equally to this work with: Jun Zhu, Matthew C Wiener, Chunsheng Zhang, Arthur Fridman

Affiliation Department of Applied Computer Science and Mathematics, Merck Research Laboratories, Rahway, New Jersey, United States of America

Eric Minch

Affiliation Department of Applied Computer Science and Mathematics, Merck Research Laboratories, Rahway, New Jersey, United States of America

Pek Y Lum

Affiliation Rosetta Inpharmatics, Seattle, Washington, United States of America

Jeffrey R Sachs

Affiliation Department of Applied Computer Science and Mathematics, Merck Research Laboratories, Rahway, New Jersey, United States of America

Eric E Schadt

To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail: Eric_Schadt@merck.com

Affiliation Rosetta Inpharmatics, Seattle, Washington, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

JZ, MCW, CZ, AF, EM, PYL, JRS, and EES conceived the idea. JZ, CZ, AF, and JRS designed the simulation. MCW, AF, EM, and JRS designed the evaluation. JZ, AF, CZ, and JRS were responsible for genetic and gene expression data simulation. JZ, CZ, and AF were responsible for network reconstruction. PYL and JRS coordinated the project. All authors contributed to writing the paper.