About the Authors

Nicholas J. Taylor

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

ntaylor@tamu.edu

Affiliation Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas, United States of America

Irina Gaynanova

Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Software, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Statistics, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas, United States of America

Steven A. Eschrich

Roles Formal analysis, Methodology, Software, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Biostatistics and Bioinformatics, H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center & Research Institute, Tampa, Florida, United States of America

Eric A. Welsh

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Software, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Biostatistics and Bioinformatics, H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center & Research Institute, Tampa, Florida, United States of America

Timothy J. Garrett

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Pathology, Immunology and Laboratory Medicine, College of Medicine, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, United States of America

Chris Beecher

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation IROA Technologies, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States of America

Ritin Sharma

Roles Investigation, Resources, Writing – review & editing

Current address: Collaborative Center for Translational Mass Spectrometry, The Translational Genomics Research Institute, Phoenix, Arizona, United States of America

Affiliation Department of Molecular Oncology, H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center & Research Institute, Tampa, Florida, United States of America

John M. Koomen

Roles Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Molecular Oncology, H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center & Research Institute, Tampa, Florida, United States of America

Keiran S. M. Smalley

Roles Investigation, Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Department of Tumor Biology, H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center & Research Institute, Tampa, Florida, United States of America, Department of Cutaneous Oncology, H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center & Research Institute, Tampa, Florida, United States of America

Jane L. Messina

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Cutaneous Oncology, H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center & Research Institute, Tampa, Florida, United States of America

Peter A. Kanetsky

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Cancer Epidemiology, H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center & Research Institute, Tampa, Florida, United States of America

Competing Interests

I have read the journal’s policy and the authors of this manuscript have the following competing interests: Chris Beecher is the Founder and Chief Science Officer of IROA Technologies. Timothy J. Garrett is a member of the Scientific Advisory Board of IROA Technologies. IROA Long Term Reference Standard and Internal Standard were donated by IROA Technologies. Timothy J Garrett’s laboratory received no funding from IROA Technologies, and this specific commercial affiliation does not alter the authors’ adherence to PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.