About the Authors

Allyson L. Lister

a.l.lister@newcastle.ac.uk

Affiliations Centre for Integrated Systems Biology of Ageing and Nutrition, Institute for Ageing and Health, Newcastle University, Campus for Ageing and Vitality, Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom, School of Computing Science, Newcastle University, Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom

Ruchira S. Datta

Affiliation QB3 Institute, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, California, United States of America

Oliver Hofmann

Affiliation Harvard School of Public Health, Department of Biostatistics, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Roland Krause

Affiliation Department of Computer Science, Free University Berlin and Department of Computational Molecular Biology, Max Planck Institute for Molecular Genetics, Berlin, Germany

Michael Kuhn

Affiliation Biotec, Technische Universität Dresden, Dresden, Germany

Bettina Roth

Affiliation International Society for Computational Biology, La Jolla, California, United States of America

Reinhard Schneider

Affiliation Computational and Structural Biology Unit, European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL), Heidelberg, Germany

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.