About the Authors

Erwin De Cock

erwin.decock@ubc.com

Affiliation United Biosource Corporation, Barcelona, Spain

Persefoni Kritikou

Affiliation United Biosource Corporation, London, United Kingdom

Mariana Sandoval

Affiliation United Biosource Corporation, Montreal, Canada

Sunning Tao

Affiliation United Biosource Corporation, Montreal, Canada

Christof Wiesner

Affiliation Genentech Inc., South San Francisco, California, United States of America

Angelo Michele Carella

Affiliation IRCSS AOU, San Martino, Italy

Charles Ngoh

Affiliation F. Hoffmann-La Roche Ltd, Basel, Switzerland

Tim Waterboer

Current address: German Cancer Research Centre (DKFZ), Heidelberg, Germany

Affiliation F. Hoffmann-La Roche Ltd, Basel, Switzerland

Competing Interests

EDC, PK, MS, ST and AMC declare that they have no competing interests. CW is a current employee and holds share options at Genentech Inc. CN is a current employee and holds share options at F. Hoffmann-La Roche Ltd. TW is a former employee at F. Hoffmann-La Roche Ltd. F. Hoffmann-La Roche Ltd holds a patent relating to the content of the manuscript. This does not alter the authors' adherence to PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: EDC CW CN. Performed the experiments: EDC PK MS ST CW. Analyzed the data: EDC PK MS ST AMC TW CW CN. Wrote the paper: EDC PK MS ST CW AMC CN TW. Preparation and approval of final manuscript: EDC PK MS ST CW AMC CN TW.