About the Authors

Gunnar Rätsch

To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail: Gunnar.Raetsch@tuebingen.mpg.de

Affiliation Friedrich Miescher Laboratory, Max Planck Society, Tübingen, Germany

Sören Sonnenburg

Affiliation Fraunhofer FIRST, Berlin, Germany

Jagan Srinivasan

Affiliation Division of Biology, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California, United States of America

Hanh Witte

Affiliation Max Planck Institute for Developmental Biology, Tübingen, Germany

Klaus-R Müller

Affiliations Fraunhofer FIRST, Berlin, Germany , Computer Science Department, Technical University of Berlin, Berlin, Germany

Ralf-J Sommer

Affiliation Max Planck Institute for Developmental Biology, Tübingen, Germany

Bernhard Schölkopf

Affiliation Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics, Tübingen, Germany

Competing Interests

GR, SS, KRM, and BS are authors of a patent application (PCT WO05116246) related to the technical innovations of the proposed method.

Author Contributions

GR, SS, JS, KRM, RJS, and BS conceived and designed the experiments. GR, JS, and HW performed the experiments. GR and SS analyzed the data. SS, RJS, and BS contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools. GR, JS, KRM, RJS, and BS wrote the paper. SS and JS contributed equally to the paper.