About the Authors

Tracey M. Filzen

Affiliation Medical Writing, Merck Research Laboratories, Upper Gwynedd, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Peter S. Kutchukian

Affiliation Informatics, Merck Research Laboratories, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Jeffrey D. Hermes

Affiliation Screening & Protein Sciences, Merck Research Laboratories, North Wales, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Jing Li

Affiliation Screening and Compound Profiling, Merck Research Laboratories, Kenilworth, New Jersey, United States of America

Matthew Tudor

matthew_tudor@merck.com

Affiliation Informatics, Merck Research Laboratories, West Point, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Competing Interests

At the time of submission, all of the authors were paid employees of Merck & Co., Inc. (Kenilworth, NJ).

Author Contributions

Conceptualization: MT. Formal analysis: MT. Investigation: TMF MT. Methodology: MT PSK. Software: MT PSK. Supervision: JDH JL. Validation: PSK. Writing – original draft: MT PSK. Writing – review & editing: MT PSK TMF JL JDH.