About the Authors

Steve Hoffmann

Affiliations Bioinformatics Group, Department of Computer Science, University of Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany, Interdisciplinary Center for Bioinformatics, University of Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany

Christian Otto

Affiliation Bioinformatics Group, Department of Computer Science, University of Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany

Stefan Kurtz

Affiliation Center for Bioinformatics, University of Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany

Cynthia M. Sharma

Affiliation Max Planck Institute for Infection Biology, Berlin, Germany

Philipp Khaitovich

Affiliation Comparative Biology Group, Partner-Institute for Computational Biology, Shanghai, China

Jörg Vogel

Affiliation Max Planck Institute for Infection Biology, Berlin, Germany

Peter F. Stadler

Affiliations Bioinformatics Group, Department of Computer Science, University of Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany, Interdisciplinary Center for Bioinformatics, University of Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany, RNomics Group, Fraunhofer Institute for Cell Therapy and Immunology IZI, Leipzig, Germany, Santa Fe Institute, Santa Fe, New Mexico, United States of America, Department of Theoretical Chemistry, University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria, Max-Planck-Institute for Mathematics in Sciences, Leipzig, Germany

Jörg Hackermüller

joerg.hackermueller@izi.fraunhofer.de

Affiliation RNomics Group, Fraunhofer Institute for Cell Therapy and Immunology IZI, Leipzig, Germany

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: SH SK PK JV PFS JH. Performed the experiments: SH CO CMS. Analyzed the data: SH CO CMS PK PFS JH. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: SH SK PK JV PFS. Wrote the paper: SH.