About the Authors

Joanne M. Yeakley

joyeakley@biospyder.com

Affiliation BioSpyder Technologies, Incorporated, Carlsbad, California, United States of America

Peter J. Shepard

Affiliation BioSpyder Technologies, Incorporated, Carlsbad, California, United States of America

Diana E. Goyena

Affiliation BioSpyder Technologies, Incorporated, Carlsbad, California, United States of America

Harper C. VanSteenhouse

Affiliation BioSpyder Technologies, Incorporated, Carlsbad, California, United States of America

Joel D. McComb

Affiliation BioSpyder Technologies, Incorporated, Carlsbad, California, United States of America

Bruce E. Seligmann

Affiliation BioSpyder Technologies, Incorporated, Carlsbad, California, United States of America

Competing Interests

I have read the journal's policy and the authors of this manuscript have the following competing interests: all authors are current employees of BioSpyder Technologies, Inc., who developed and commercialized the TempOSeq assay. JY, JM, and BS own shares in BioSpyder Technologies, Inc. Our commercial affiliation does not alter our adherence to PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.

Author Contributions

Conceptualization: JY PS HVS BS. Data curation: JY PS. Formal analysis: JY PS. Funding acquisition: JY JM BS. Investigation: JY DG. Methodology: JY DG PS BS. Project administration: JY BS. Resources: JY DG PS BS. Software: PS. Supervision: JY JM BS. Validation: JY PS DG. Visualization: JY. Writing – original draft: JY. Writing – review & editing: JY PS DG HVS JM BS.