About the Authors

Philippe Pérot

Affiliation Joint Unit Hospices Civils de Lyon, bioMérieux, Cancer Biomarkers Research Group, Centre Hospitalier Lyon Sud, Lyon, France

Nathalie Mugnier

Affiliation BioMérieux, Data and Knowledge Laboratory, Marcy l’Etoile, France

Cécile Montgiraud

Affiliation Joint Unit Hospices Civils de Lyon, bioMérieux, Cancer Biomarkers Research Group, Centre Hospitalier Lyon Sud, Lyon, France

Juliette Gimenez

Affiliation Joint Unit Hospices Civils de Lyon, bioMérieux, Cancer Biomarkers Research Group, Centre Hospitalier Lyon Sud, Lyon, France

Magali Jaillard

Affiliation BioMérieux, Data and Knowledge Laboratory, Marcy l’Etoile, France

Bertrand Bonnaud

Affiliation BioMérieux, Data and Knowledge Laboratory, Marcy l’Etoile, France

François Mallet

francois.mallet@biomerieux.com

Affiliation Joint Unit Hospices Civils de Lyon, bioMérieux, Cancer Biomarkers Research Group, Centre Hospitalier Lyon Sud, Lyon, France

Competing Interests

PP, NM, MJ, BB and FM are employees of bioMérieux SA. PP, NM, CM and FM have submitted patent applications covering the findings of this paper. This does not alter the authors' adherence to all the PLoS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: FM. Performed the experiments: PP JG CM. Analyzed the data: PP NM FM. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: FM BB JG NM CM MJ PP. Wrote the paper: PP FM.