About the Authors

Ashutosh Malhotra

Contributed equally to this work with: Ashutosh Malhotra, Erfan Younesi

Affiliations Department of Bioinformatics, Fraunhofer Institute for Algorithms and Scientific Computing, Sankt Augustin, Germany, Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn, Bonn-Aachen International Center for Information Technology, Bonn, Germany

Erfan Younesi

Contributed equally to this work with: Ashutosh Malhotra, Erfan Younesi

Affiliations Department of Bioinformatics, Fraunhofer Institute for Algorithms and Scientific Computing, Sankt Augustin, Germany, Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn, Bonn-Aachen International Center for Information Technology, Bonn, Germany

Harsha Gurulingappa

Affiliations Department of Bioinformatics, Fraunhofer Institute for Algorithms and Scientific Computing, Sankt Augustin, Germany, Molecular Connections Pvt. Ltd., Basavanagudi, Bangalore, India

Martin Hofmann-Apitius

martin.hofmann-apitius@scai.fraunhofer.de

Affiliations Department of Bioinformatics, Fraunhofer Institute for Algorithms and Scientific Computing, Sankt Augustin, Germany, Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn, Bonn-Aachen International Center for Information Technology, Bonn, Germany

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: AM EY HG MHA. Performed the experiments: AM. Analyzed the data: AM. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: HG. Wrote the paper: AM EY HG MHA. Helped with the machine learning implementation: HG. Provided guidance and suggestions: EY MHA.