About the Authors

Philip E. Bourne

philip.bourne@nih.gov (PEB); brenner@compbio.berkeley.edu (SEB); mbeisen@lbl.gov (MBE)

Affiliation Office of the Director, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Steven E. Brenner

philip.bourne@nih.gov (PEB); brenner@compbio.berkeley.edu (SEB); mbeisen@lbl.gov (MBE)

Affiliations Department of Plant and Microbial Biology, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, California, United States of America, Department of Molecular and Cell Biology, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, California, United States of America

Michael B. Eisen

philip.bourne@nih.gov (PEB); brenner@compbio.berkeley.edu (SEB); mbeisen@lbl.gov (MBE)

Affiliation Department of Molecular and Cell Biology, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, California, United States of America

Competing Interests

Philip E. Bourne is Founding Editor-in-Chief of PLOS Computational Biology. Steven E. Brenner and Michael B. Eisen are Founding Editors of PLOS Computational Biology.