About the Authors

Martin Triska

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Writing – original draft

Affiliations Children’s Hospital Los Angeles, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, United States of America, Faculty of Advanced Technology, University of South Wales, Pontypridd, Wales, United Kingdom

Victor Solovyev

Roles Methodology, Resources, Software, Validation, Writing – original draft

Affiliation Softberry, Inc. Mount Kisco, NY, United States of America

Ancha Baranova

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliations School of Systems Biology, George Mason University, Fairfax, VA, United States of America, Research Centre for Medical Genetics, Moscow, Russia

Alexander Kel

Roles Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Resources, Software, Supervision, Writing – original draft

‡ These authors are joint senior authors on this work.

Affiliations geneXplain GmbH, Wolfenbuettel, Germany, Institute of Chemical Biology and Fundamental Medicine, Novosibirsk, Russia

Tatiana V. Tatarinova

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Resources, Software, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

ttatarinova@laverne.edu

‡ These authors are joint senior authors on this work.

Affiliations School of Systems Biology, George Mason University, Fairfax, VA, United States of America, Department of Biology, Division of Natural Sciences, University of La Verne, La Verne, CA, United States of America, Bioinformatics Center, AA Kharkevich Institute for Information Transmission Problems RAS, Moscow, Russia, Vavilov’s Institute for General Genetics, Moscow, Russia, Moscow, Russia

Competing Interests

AK is the Founder and Chief Scientific Officer of GeneXplain GmbH. VS is the Chief Scientific Officer of Softberry, Inc. This does not alter our adherence to PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.