About the Authors

Sabine Schilling

Affiliations Institute of Molecular Life Sciences, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland, Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland

Maria Willecke

Affiliation Institute of Molecular Life Sciences, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland

Tinri Aegerter-Wilmsen

Affiliation Institute of Molecular Life Sciences, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland

Olaf A. Cirpka

Affiliation Center for Applied Geoscience, University of Tuebingen, Tuebingen, Germany

Konrad Basler

Affiliation Institute of Molecular Life Sciences, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland

Christian von Mering

mering@imls.uzh.ch

Affiliations Institute of Molecular Life Sciences, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland, Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: SS MW KB CvM. Performed the experiments: SS MW. Analyzed the data: SS TAW. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: MW TAW OAC. Wrote the paper: SS CvM.