About the Authors

Niels Röckendorf

Contributed equally to this work with: Niels Röckendorf, Markus Borschbach

Affiliation Division of Mucosal Immunology & Diagnostics, Priority Program Asthma & Allergy, Research Center Borstel, Airway Research Center North (ARCN), Member of the German Center for Lung Research (DZL), Borstel, Germany

Markus Borschbach

Contributed equally to this work with: Niels Röckendorf, Markus Borschbach

Affiliation FHDW, University of Applied Sciences, Bergisch Gladbach, Germany

Andreas Frey

afrey@fz-borstel.de

Affiliation Division of Mucosal Immunology & Diagnostics, Priority Program Asthma & Allergy, Research Center Borstel, Airway Research Center North (ARCN), Member of the German Center for Lung Research (DZL), Borstel, Germany

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: NR AF. Performed the experiments: NR. Analyzed the data: NR. Wrote the paper: NR MB AF. Created the evolutionary algorithm software: MB. Developed the concept and supervised the study: AF.