About the Authors

Philip Stegmaier

philip.stegmaier@genexplain.com

Affiliations Biobase GmbH, Wolfenbüttel, Germany, geneXplain GmbH, Wolfenbüttel, Germany

Alexander Kel

Affiliation geneXplain GmbH, Wolfenbüttel, Germany

Edgar Wingender

Affiliations geneXplain GmbH, Wolfenbüttel, Germany, Universätsmedizin Göttingen, Abteilung Bioinformatik, Göttingen, Germany

Jürgen Borlak

Affiliation Medizinische Hochschule Hannover, Zentrum für Pharmakologie und Toxikologie, Hannover, Germany

Competing Interests

I have read the journal's policy and have the following conflicts: PS is an employee of Biobase GmbH, Germany. AK and EW are employees of geneXplain GmbH, Germany. JB is an employee of Medizinische Hochschule Hannover. There are no patents, products in development, or marketed products to declare. This does not alter the authors' adherence to all the PLOS Computational Biology policies on sharing data and materials, as detailed online in the guide for authors.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: PS. Performed the experiments: PS. Analyzed the data: PS. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: PS EW. Wrote the paper: PS AK EW JB.