About the Authors

Yongsheng Huang

Affiliations Center for Computational Biology and Bioinformatics, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States of America, Department of Statistics, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States of America

Aimee K. Zaas

Affiliations Institute for Genome Sciences and Policy, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America, Department of Medicine, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America

Arvind Rao

Affiliation Lane Center for Computational Biology, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Nicolas Dobigeon

Affiliation IRIT/INP-ENSEEIHT, University of Toulouse, Toulouse, France

Peter J. Woolf

Affiliations Center for Computational Biology and Bioinformatics, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States of America, Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States of America, Department of Chemical Engineering, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States of America

Timothy Veldman

Affiliation Department of Medicine, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America

N. Christine Øien

Affiliation Department of Medicine, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America

Micah T. McClain

Affiliations Institute for Genome Sciences and Policy, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America, Department of Medicine, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America

Jay B. Varkey

Affiliation Department of Medicine, School of Medicine, Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America

Bradley Nicholson

Affiliation Department of Medicine, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America

Lawrence Carin

Affiliation Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America

Stephen Kingsmore

Affiliation Center for Pediatric Genomic Medicine, Children's Mercy Hospital, Kansas City, Missouri, United States of America

Christopher W. Woods

Affiliations Institute for Genome Sciences and Policy, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America, Department of Medicine, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America

Geoffrey S. Ginsburg

geoffrey.ginsburg@duke.edu (GSG); hero@eecs.umich.edu (AOH)

Affiliations Institute for Genome Sciences and Policy, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America, Department of Medicine, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America

Alfred O. Hero III

geoffrey.ginsburg@duke.edu (GSG); hero@eecs.umich.edu (AOH)

Affiliations Center for Computational Biology and Bioinformatics, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States of America, Department of Statistics, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States of America, Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States of America, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: AKZ TV CWW GSG BN. Performed the experiments: AKZ JBV CWW NCØ. Analyzed the data: YH MTM AOH. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: AR ND PJW LC AOH. Wrote the paper: YH AKZ MTM SK CWW GSG AOH.