About the Authors
- Sarah K. Kendrick
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Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Methodology, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing
* E-mail: Sarah.Kendrick@Louisville.Edu (SK); Nichola.Garbett@Louisville.Edu (NG)
Affiliation University of Louisville, School of Public Health and Information Sciences, Department of Bioinformatics and Biostatistics, Louisville, KY, United States of America
- Qi Zheng
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Roles Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – review & editing
Affiliation University of Louisville, School of Public Health and Information Sciences, Department of Bioinformatics and Biostatistics, Louisville, KY, United States of America
- Nichola C. Garbett
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Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing
* E-mail: Sarah.Kendrick@Louisville.Edu (SK); Nichola.Garbett@Louisville.Edu (NG)
Affiliation University of Louisville, James Graham Brown Cancer Center, Department of Medicine, Louisville, KY, United States of America
- Guy N. Brock
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Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing
Current address: The Ohio State University, Department of Biomedical Informatics, College of Medicine, Columbus, OH, United States of America
Affiliation University of Louisville, School of Public Health and Information Sciences, Department of Bioinformatics and Biostatistics, Louisville, KY, United States of America
Competing Interests
NCG and GNB are co-inventors on a patent application describing approaches for the analysis of DSC plasma thermogram data and their use for diagnostic classification (Garbett, N.C., and Brock, G.N. “Methods of Characterizing and/or Predicting Risk Associated with a Biological Sample Using Thermal Stability Profiles,” U.S. PCT Application PCT/US16/57416, Oct. 2016). NCG is a consultant for TA Instruments, Inc., a supplier of calorimetry instrumentation but not the supplier of the DSC instrument used to collect data for this study. This does not alter the authors’ adherence to all PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.