About the Authors

Dennis Kostka

To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail: dkostka@ucdavis.edu

¤ Current address: UC Davis Genome Center and Department of Statistics, University of California Davis, Davis, California, United States of America

Affiliation Department of Computational Molecular Biology, Max Planck Institute for Molecular Genetics, Berlin, Germany

Rainer Spang

Affiliation Computational Diagnostics Group, Institute for Functional Genomics, University of Regensburg, Regensburg, Germany

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

DK and RS jointly designed the experiment and the statistical analysis and participated in the writing of the manuscript. DK wrote the software and the supplemental material.