About the Authors

Brian W. Busser

Contributed equally to this work with: Brian W. Busser, Leila Taher

Affiliation Laboratory of Developmental Systems Biology, National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Leila Taher

Contributed equally to this work with: Brian W. Busser, Leila Taher

Affiliation Computational Biology Branch, National Center for Biotechnology Information, National Library of Medicine, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Yongsok Kim

Affiliation Laboratory of Developmental Systems Biology, National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Terese Tansey

Affiliation Laboratory of Developmental Systems Biology, National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Molly J. Bloom

Affiliation Laboratory of Developmental Systems Biology, National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Ivan Ovcharenko

ovcharen@nih.gov (IO); michelsonam@nhlbi.nih.gov (AMM)

Affiliation Computational Biology Branch, National Center for Biotechnology Information, National Library of Medicine, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Alan M. Michelson

ovcharen@nih.gov (IO); michelsonam@nhlbi.nih.gov (AMM)

Affiliation Laboratory of Developmental Systems Biology, National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: BWB LT YK TT IO AMM. Performed the experiments: BWB LT YK TT. Analyzed the data: BWB LT YK TT IO AMM. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: MJB. Wrote the paper: BWB LT IO AMM.