About the Authors

Lun Yang

Lun.Yang@gmail.com

Affiliation Computational Biology, Quantitative Sciences, Medicines Discovery and Development, GlaxoSmithKline, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Pankaj Agarwal

Affiliation Computational Biology, Quantitative Sciences, Medicines Discovery and Development, GlaxoSmithKline, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors are employees of GlaxoSmithKline. They have one patent application related to this research. The patent id and title are 61/525467: METHOD OF DRUG REPOSITIONING. The application was filed provisionally in the USPTO on August 19th, 2011. However, 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: LY. Performed the experiments: LY . Analyzed the data: LY PA. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: LY PA. Wrote the paper: LY PA.