About the Authors

Sarah K. Kendrick

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Methodology, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

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

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

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

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

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.