About the Authors

Livia S. Eberlin

Affiliation Department of Chemistry, Stanford University, Stanford, California, United States of America

Katherine Margulis

Affiliation Department of Chemistry, Stanford University, Stanford, California, United States of America

Ivette Planell-Mendez

Affiliation Department of Chemistry, Stanford University, Stanford, California, United States of America

Richard N. Zare

zare@stanford.edu

Affiliation Department of Chemistry, Stanford University, Stanford, California, United States of America

Robert Tibshirani

Affiliations Department of Biomedical Data Sciences, Stanford University, Stanford, California, United States of America, Department of Statistics, Stanford University, Stanford, California, United States of America

Teri A. Longacre

Affiliation Department of Pathology, Stanford University, Stanford, California, United States of America

Moe Jalali

Affiliation Department of Surgery, Stanford University, Stanford, California, United States of America

Jeffrey A. Norton

Affiliation Department of Surgery, Stanford University, Stanford, California, United States of America

George A. Poultsides

Affiliation Department of Surgery, Stanford University, Stanford, California, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: LSE RNZ RT GAP. Performed the experiments: LSE KM IP-M RT TAL MJ GAP. Analyzed the data: LSE RT TAL JAN GAP. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: RT MJ GAP. Wrote the first draft of the manuscript: LSE. Contributed to the writing of the manuscript: RNZ RT TAL GAP. Enrolled patients: GAP. Agree with the manuscript’s results and conclusions: LSE KM IP-M RNZ RT TAL MJ JAN GAP. All authors have read, and confirm that they meet, ICMJE criteria for authorship.