About the Authors

Hong Hao

Affiliation Neurobiology-Neurodegeneration and Repair Laboratory, National Eye Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Douglas S. Kim

Current address: Janelia Farm Research Campus, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Ashburn, Virginia, United States of America

Affiliation Neurobiology-Neurodegeneration and Repair Laboratory, National Eye Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Bernward Klocke

Affiliation Genomatix GmbH, Munich, Germany

Kory R. Johnson

Affiliation Information Technology and Bioinformatics Program, National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Kairong Cui

Affiliation Laboratory of Molecular Immunology, National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Norimoto Gotoh

Affiliation Neurobiology-Neurodegeneration and Repair Laboratory, National Eye Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Chongzhi Zang

Current address: Department of Biostatistics and Computational Biology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Affiliation Department of Physics, The George Washington University, Washington, D.C., United States of America

Janina Gregorski

Affiliation Neurobiology-Neurodegeneration and Repair Laboratory, National Eye Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Linn Gieser

Affiliation Neurobiology-Neurodegeneration and Repair Laboratory, National Eye Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Weiqun Peng

Affiliation Department of Physics, The George Washington University, Washington, D.C., United States of America

Yang Fann

Affiliation Information Technology and Bioinformatics Program, National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Martin Seifert

Affiliation Genomatix GmbH, Munich, Germany

Keji Zhao

Affiliation Laboratory of Molecular Immunology, National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Anand Swaroop

swaroopa@nei.nih.gov

Affiliation Neurobiology-Neurodegeneration and Repair Laboratory, National Eye Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Competing Interests

Two of the authors are employed by a bioinformatics company, Genomatix. The authors have declared that no additional competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: AS HH DSK. Performed the experiments: HH DSK KC NG JG LG. Analyzed the data: HH DSK BK KRJ CZ NG AS. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: BK KC CZ WP YF MS KZ. Wrote the paper: HH DSK BK AS.