About the Authors

Yijun Zhao

Affiliation Department of Computer Science, Tufts University, Medford, Massachusetts, United States of America

Brian C. Healy

Affiliations Partners MS Center, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Brookline, Massachusetts, United States of America, Biostatistics Center, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Dalia Rotstein

Affiliation Partners MS Center, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Brookline, Massachusetts, United States of America

Charles R. G. Guttmann

Affiliation Partners MS Center, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Brookline, Massachusetts, United States of America

Rohit Bakshi

Affiliation Partners MS Center, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Brookline, Massachusetts, United States of America

Howard L. Weiner

Affiliation Partners MS Center, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Brookline, Massachusetts, United States of America

Carla E. Brodley

Affiliation College of Computer and Information Science, Northeastern, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Tanuja Chitnis

tchitnis@partners.org

Affiliation Partners MS Center, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Brookline, Massachusetts, United States of America

Competing Interests

Yijun Zhao has no disclosures. Brian Healy has received grant support from Merck-Serono and Novartis. Dalia Rotstein has no disclosures. Charles Guttmann has no disclosures. Rohit Bakshi has received consulting fees and/or research support from Abbvie, Alkermes, Biogen Idec, Genzyme/Sanofi, Novartis, Teva, and Questcor in the past 12 months. Howard Weiner has served as a consultant for Biogen-Idec, Nasvax, Novartis, Merck Serono, and Teva Neurosciences, and has received grant support from Merck Serono. Dr. Brodley has no disclosures. Dr. Chitnis has served as an advisor for Biogen-Idec, Novartis, Sanofi-Aventis, Teva Neurosciences, and has received grant support from National MS Society, NIH, Guthy-Jackson Charitable Foundation, Merck-Serono and Novartis. The disclosures listed for authors do not alter our adherence to PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.

Author Contributions

Conceptualization: YZ BCH CEB TC. Data curation: BCH TC. Formal analysis: YZ BCH CEB TC. Funding acquisition: HLW CEB TC. Investigation: YZ BCH CEB TC. Methodology: YZ BCH CEB TC. Project administration: TC. Resources: CRGG RB HLW CEB TC. Software: YZ BCH. Supervision: CEB TC. Validation: DR CRGG RB HLW TC. Visualization: YZ. Writing – original draft: YZ TC. Writing – review & editing: BCH DR CRGG RB HLW CEB.