About the Authors

Tanvir Alam

Contributed equally to this work with: Tanvir Alam, Yulia A. Medvedeva

Affiliation King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), Computational Bioscience Research Center (CBRC), Computer, Electrical and Mathematical Sciences and Engineering Division (CEMSE), Thuwal, Saudi Arabia

Yulia A. Medvedeva

Contributed equally to this work with: Tanvir Alam, Yulia A. Medvedeva

Current address: Institute of Personal and Predictive Medicine of Cancer, Badalona, Spain; Vavilov Institute of General Genetics, Moscow, Russia

Affiliation King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), Computational Bioscience Research Center (CBRC), Computer, Electrical and Mathematical Sciences and Engineering Division (CEMSE), Thuwal, Saudi Arabia

Hui Jia

Affiliation Center for Molecular Medicine and Genetics, Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan, United States of America

James B. Brown

Affiliation Department of Genome Dynamics, Life Sciences Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California, United States of America

Leonard Lipovich

llipovich@med.wayne.edu (LL); vladimir.bajic@kaust.edu.sa (VB)

These authors also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliations Center for Molecular Medicine and Genetics, Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan, United States of America, Department of Neurology, School of Medicine, Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan, United States of America

Vladimir B. Bajic

llipovich@med.wayne.edu (LL); vladimir.bajic@kaust.edu.sa (VB)

These authors also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliation King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), Computational Bioscience Research Center (CBRC), Computer, Electrical and Mathematical Sciences and Engineering Division (CEMSE), Thuwal, Saudi Arabia

Competing Interests

The authors confirm that co–author Vladimir Bajic is a PLOS ONE Editorial Board member. This does not alter their adherence to PLOS ONE Editorial policies and criteria.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: VBB LL. Performed the experiments: TA. Analyzed the data: TA YAM HJ JBB LL VBB. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: HJ. Wrote the paper: TA YAM JBB LL VBB. Developed one of the lncRNA datasets: HJ.