About the Authors

Gil Alterovitz

Affiliations Harvard/MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Computational Health Informatics Program, Boston Children’s Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Dennis Dean

Affiliation Seven Bridges, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America

Carole Goble

Affiliation School of Computer Science, The University of Manchester, Manchester, United Kingdom

Michael R. Crusoe

Affiliation Common Workflow Language Project, Vilnius, Lithuania

Stian Soiland-Reyes

Affiliation School of Computer Science, The University of Manchester, Manchester, United Kingdom

Amanda Bell

Affiliation The Department of Biochemistry & Molecular Medicine, The George Washington University Medical Center, Washington, DC, United States of America

Anais Hayes

Affiliation The Department of Biochemistry & Molecular Medicine, The George Washington University Medical Center, Washington, DC, United States of America

Anita Suresh

Affiliation Foundation for Innovative New Diagnostics (FIND), Geneva, Switzerland

Anjan Purkayastha

Affiliations The Department of Biochemistry & Molecular Medicine, The George Washington University Medical Center, Washington, DC, United States of America, OpenBox Bio, Vienna, Virgnia, United States of America

Charles H. King

Affiliations The Department of Biochemistry & Molecular Medicine, The George Washington University Medical Center, Washington, DC, United States of America, The McCormick Genomic and Proteomic Center, The George Washington University, Washington, DC, United States of America

Dan Taylor

Affiliation Internet 2, Washington, DC, United States of America

Elaine Johanson

Affiliation US Food and Drug Administration, Silver Spring, Maryland, United States of America

Elaine E. Thompson

Affiliation US Food and Drug Administration, Silver Spring, Maryland, United States of America

Eric Donaldson

Affiliation US Food and Drug Administration, Silver Spring, Maryland, United States of America

Hiroki Morizono

Affiliations Center for Genetic Medicine, Children's National Medical Center, Washington, DC, United States of America, The Department of Genomics and Precision Medicine, The George Washington University, School of Medicine and Health Sciences, Washington, DC, United States of America

Hsinyi Tsang

Affiliations Center for Biomedical Informatics and Information Technology, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Gaithersburg, Maryland, United States of America, Attain, McClean, Virginia, United States of America

Jeet K. Vora

Affiliation The Department of Biochemistry & Molecular Medicine, The George Washington University Medical Center, Washington, DC, United States of America

Jeremy Goecks

Affiliation Computational Biology Program, Oregon Health & Science University, Portland Oregon, United States of America

Jianchao Yao

Affiliation MRL IT, Merck & Co., Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Jonas S. Almeida

Affiliation Stony Brook University, School of Medicine and College of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Stony Brook, New York, United States of America

Jonathon Keeney

Affiliation The Department of Biochemistry & Molecular Medicine, The George Washington University Medical Center, Washington, DC, United States of America

KanakaDurga Addepalli

Affiliation Attain, McClean, Virginia, United States of America

Konstantinos Krampis

Affiliations Department of Biological Sciences, Hunter College of The City University of New York, New York, New York, United States of America, Institute for Computational Biomedicine, Weill Cornell Medical College, New York, New York, United States of America

Krista M. Smith

Affiliation The McCormick Genomic and Proteomic Center, The George Washington University, Washington, DC, United States of America

Lydia Guo

Affiliation Wellesley College, Wellesley, Massachusetts, United States of America

Mark Walderhaug

Affiliation The McCormick Genomic and Proteomic Center, The George Washington University, Washington, DC, United States of America

Marco Schito

Affiliation Critical Path Institute, Tucson, Arizona, United States of America

Matthew Ezewudo

Affiliation Critical Path Institute, Tucson, Arizona, United States of America

Nuria Guimera

Affiliation DDL Diagnostic Laboratory, Rijswijk, Netherlands

Paul Walsh

Affiliation NSilico Life Science, Nova Center, Belfield Innovation Park, University College Dublin, Dublin Ireland

Robel Kahsay

Affiliation The Department of Biochemistry & Molecular Medicine, The George Washington University Medical Center, Washington, DC, United States of America

Srikanth Gottipati

Affiliation OTSUKA Pharmaceutical Development & Commercialization, Princeton, New Jersey, United States of America

Timothy C. Rodwell

Affiliation Foundation for Innovative New Diagnostics (FIND), Geneva, Switzerland

Toby Bloom

Affiliation New York Genome Center, New York, New York, United States of America

Yuching Lai

Affiliation DDL Diagnostic Laboratory, Rijswijk, Netherlands

Vahan Simonyan

Affiliation The McCormick Genomic and Proteomic Center, The George Washington University, Washington, DC, United States of America

Raja Mazumder

mazumder@gwu.edu

Affiliations The Department of Biochemistry & Molecular Medicine, The George Washington University Medical Center, Washington, DC, United States of America, The McCormick Genomic and Proteomic Center, The George Washington University, Washington, DC, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.