About the Authors

Shlomit Farkash-Amar

Contributed equally to this work with: Shlomit Farkash-Amar, Yaara David

Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics, Hebrew University Medical School, IMRIC, Jerusalem, Israel

Yaara David

Contributed equally to this work with: Shlomit Farkash-Amar, Yaara David

Affiliation Department of Electrical Engineering, Technion – Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel

Andreas Polten

Affiliation Agilent Technologies, Waldbronn, Germany

Hadas Hezroni

Affiliation Department of Genetics, Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel

Yonina C. Eldar

Affiliation Department of Electrical Engineering, Technion – Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel

Eran Meshorer

Affiliation Department of Genetics, Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel

Zohar Yakhini

zohar_yakhini@agilent.com (ZY); itamarsi@ekmd.huji.ac.il (IS)

Affiliations Department of Computer Sciences, Technion – Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel, Agilent Laboratories Tel-Aviv, Israel

Itamar Simon

zohar_yakhini@agilent.com (ZY); itamarsi@ekmd.huji.ac.il (IS)

Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics, Hebrew University Medical School, IMRIC, Jerusalem, Israel

Competing Interests

The authors have the following interests: AP and ZY are employees of Agilent Technologies. The study uses data acquired by performing measurements utilizing microarrays made by Agilent Technologies. There are no patents to declare. This does not alter the authors’ adherence to all the PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials, as detailed online in the guide for authors.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: ZY YD SFA IS YE. Performed the experiments: SFA AP. Analyzed the data: YD SFA. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: HH EM. Wrote the paper: ZY IS SFA YD.