About the Authors

Alexander Favorov

Contributed equally to this work with: Alexander Favorov, Loris Mularoni

favorov@sensi.org (AF); swheelan@jhmi.edu (SJW)

Affiliations Department of Oncology, Division of Biostatistics and Bioinformatics, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America, Vavilov Institute of General Genetics, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia, Research Institute of Genetics and Selection of Industrial Microorganisms, Moscow, Russia

Loris Mularoni

Contributed equally to this work with: Alexander Favorov, Loris Mularoni

Current address: Institut d'Investigacions Biomèdiques August Pi i Sunyer (IDIBAPS), Barcelona, Spain.

Affiliation Department of Oncology, Division of Biostatistics and Bioinformatics, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

Leslie M. Cope

Affiliation Department of Oncology, Division of Biostatistics and Bioinformatics, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

Yulia Medvedeva

Current address: Computational Bioscience Research Center, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, Thuwal, Saudi Arabia.

Affiliations Vavilov Institute of General Genetics, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia, Research Institute of Genetics and Selection of Industrial Microorganisms, Moscow, Russia

Andrey A. Mironov

Affiliations Department of Bioengineering and Bioinformatics, Moscow State University, Moscow, Russia, Institute for Information Transmission Problems, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia

Vsevolod J. Makeev

Affiliations Vavilov Institute of General Genetics, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia, Research Institute of Genetics and Selection of Industrial Microorganisms, Moscow, Russia

Sarah J. Wheelan

favorov@sensi.org (AF); swheelan@jhmi.edu (SJW)

Affiliation Department of Oncology, Division of Biostatistics and Bioinformatics, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: AF LM LMC YM AAM VJM SJW. Performed the experiments: AF LM SJW. Analyzed the data: AF LM SJW. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: AF LM LMC SJW. Wrote the paper: LMC SJW.