About the Authors

Igor V Tetko

Affiliation GSF National Research Center for Environment and Health, MIPS, Institute for Bioinformatics, Neuherberg, Germany

Georg Haberer

Affiliation GSF National Research Center for Environment and Health, MIPS, Institute for Bioinformatics, Neuherberg, Germany

Stephen Rudd

Affiliation Bioinformatics Group, Turku Centre for Biotechnology, Tykistokatu, Turku, Finland

Blake Meyers

Affiliation Department of Plant and Soil Sciences, Delaware Biotechnology Institute, Newark, New Jersey, United States of America

Hans-Werner Mewes

Affiliations GSF National Research Center for Environment and Health, MIPS, Institute for Bioinformatics, Neuherberg, Germany , Department of Genome-Oriented Bioinformatics, Wissenschaftszentrum Weihenstephan, Technische Universität München, Freising, Germany

Klaus F. X Mayer

To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail: K.mayer@gsf.de

Affiliation GSF National Research Center for Environment and Health, MIPS, Institute for Bioinformatics, Neuherberg, Germany

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

IVT and KFXM conceived and designed the experiments. IVT and GH performed the experiments and analyzed the data. SR and BM contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools. HWM revised the manuscript for important intellectual content and obtained funding. IVT and KFXM wrote the paper.