About the Authors

Bo Zhou

‡ These authors contributed equally to this work.

Affiliation Department of Developmental Biology, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, California, United States of America

Jared M. Schrader

‡ These authors contributed equally to this work.

Affiliation Department of Developmental Biology, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, California, United States of America

Virginia S. Kalogeraki

Affiliation Department of Developmental Biology, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, California, United States of America

Eduardo Abeliuk

Current address: TeselaGen Biotechnology, Inc., San Francisco, California, United States of America

Affiliation Department of Developmental Biology, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, California, United States of America

Cong B. Dinh

Affiliation Department of Developmental Biology, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, California, United States of America

James Q. Pham

Affiliation Department of Computer Science, Stanford University, Stanford, California, United States of America

Zhongying Z. Cui

Affiliation Department of Electrical Engineering, Stanford University, Stanford, California, United States of America

David L. Dill

Affiliation Department of Computer Science, Stanford University, Stanford, California, United States of America

Harley H. McAdams

Affiliation Department of Developmental Biology, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, California, United States of America

Lucy Shapiro

shapiro@stanford.edu

Affiliation Department of Developmental Biology, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, California, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: BZ EA. Performed the experiments: BZ EA VSK JMS CBD. Analyzed the data: BZ JMS JQP ZZC DLD HHM. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: LS HHM. Wrote the paper: BZ JMS HHM LS. Performed 5' global RACE: BZ EA. Performed identification of transcription start sites and cell cycle regulation analysis: BZ. Performed binding motif analysis: BZ. Performed microarray correlation analysis: BZ JMS. Performed ChIP-seq data analysis: BZ JMS JQP ZZC DLD. Performed the β-galactosidase assays: VSK BZ JMS CBD.