About the Authors

Richard Sever

sever@cshl.edu

Affiliation Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, Cold Spring Harbor, New York, United States of America

Michael Eisen

Affiliations University of California, Berkeley, California, United States of America, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Chevy Chase, Maryland, United States of America

John Inglis

Affiliation Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, Cold Spring Harbor, New York, United States of America

Competing Interests

I have read the journal′s policy and the authors of this manuscript have the following competing interests: Richard Sever and John Inglis are co-founders of bioRxiv, a non-profit preprint server operated by Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory and funded by a grant from the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative. Neither has a financial interest in the server. Michael Eisen is a founder and former Board Member of the Public Library of Science and is the Editor in Chief of eLife, a non-profit open access publisher.