About the Authors

Katrin Hübner

katrin.huebner@bioquant.uni-heidelberg.de

Current address: BIOQUANT, Modeling Biological Processes, Institute of Zoology, University of Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany.

Affiliations Computational Systems Biochemistry, Institute of Biochemistry, Charité-Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Germany, Bioinformatics Group, Max Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine Berlin-Buch, Germany

Thomas Schwager

Affiliation Computational Systems Biochemistry, Institute of Biochemistry, Charité-Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Germany

Karl Winkler

Affiliation Department of Clinical Chemistry, University Hospital Freiburg, Germany

Jens-Georg Reich

Affiliation Bioinformatics Group, Max Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine Berlin-Buch, Germany

Hermann-Georg Holzhütter

Affiliation Computational Systems Biochemistry, Institute of Biochemistry, Charité-Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Germany

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Performed the experiments: KW. Analyzed the data: KH. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: TS KW. Wrote the paper: KH TS HH. Data-mined the literature; contributed to the model design; performed model building, implementations, and simulations; conceived and performed in-silico experiments and analyses: KH. Provided stochastic modeling experience and model implementations and contributed to the model design, simulations and analyses: TS. Provided experimental work and clinical experience in lipid diagnostics: KW. Provided mathematical modeling experience and lipoprotein metabolism knowledge: JR. Contributed to the model design and provided mathematical modeling experience, model implementation, and simulation: HH.