About the Authors

Oliver Stegle

Contributed equally to this work with: Oliver Stegle, Leopold Parts

oliver.stegle@tuebingen.mpg.de (OS); jwinn@microsoft.com (JW)

Affiliations Max Planck Institutes Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom

Leopold Parts

Contributed equally to this work with: Oliver Stegle, Leopold Parts

Affiliation Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Hinxton, Cambridge, United Kingdom

Richard Durbin

Affiliation Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Hinxton, Cambridge, United Kingdom

John Winn

oliver.stegle@tuebingen.mpg.de (OS); jwinn@microsoft.com (JW)

Affiliation Microsoft Research, Cambridge, United Kingdom

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: OS LP RD JW. Performed the experiments: OS LP. Analyzed the data: OS LP. Wrote the paper: OS LP RD JW. Developed methodology: OS LP RD JW.