About the Authors

Martin C Frith

Affiliations Genome Exploration Research Group (Genome Network Project Core Group), RIKEN Genomic Sciences Center, RIKEN Yokohama Institute, Yokohama, Japan , Institute for Molecular Bioscience, University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia

Laurens G Wilming

Affiliation Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Hinxton, United Kingdom

Alistair Forrest

Affiliation Institute for Molecular Bioscience, University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia

Hideya Kawaji

Affiliation Genome Exploration Research Group (Genome Network Project Core Group), RIKEN Genomic Sciences Center, RIKEN Yokohama Institute, Yokohama, Japan

Sin Lam Tan

Affiliations Institute for Infocomm Research, Singapore, Singapore , University of the Western Cape, South African National Bioinformatics Institute, Bellville, South Africa

Claes Wahlestedt

Affiliations Center for Genomics and Bioinformatics, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden , Department of Biomedical Sciences, The Scripps Research Institute, Jupiter, Florida, United States of America

Vladimir B Bajic

Affiliations Institute for Infocomm Research, Singapore, Singapore , University of the Western Cape, South African National Bioinformatics Institute, Bellville, South Africa

Chikatoshi Kai

Affiliation Genome Exploration Research Group (Genome Network Project Core Group), RIKEN Genomic Sciences Center, RIKEN Yokohama Institute, Yokohama, Japan

Jun Kawai

Affiliations Genome Exploration Research Group (Genome Network Project Core Group), RIKEN Genomic Sciences Center, RIKEN Yokohama Institute, Yokohama, Japan , Genome Science Laboratory, Discovery Research Institute, RIKEN Wako Institute, Wako, Japan

Piero Carninci

Affiliations Genome Exploration Research Group (Genome Network Project Core Group), RIKEN Genomic Sciences Center, RIKEN Yokohama Institute, Yokohama, Japan , Genome Science Laboratory, Discovery Research Institute, RIKEN Wako Institute, Wako, Japan

Yoshihide Hayashizaki

Affiliations Genome Exploration Research Group (Genome Network Project Core Group), RIKEN Genomic Sciences Center, RIKEN Yokohama Institute, Yokohama, Japan , Genome Science Laboratory, Discovery Research Institute, RIKEN Wako Institute, Wako, Japan

Timothy L Bailey

Affiliation Institute for Molecular Bioscience, University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia

Lukasz Huminiecki

To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail: Lukasz.Huminiecki@licr.uu.se

Affiliations Center for Genomics and Bioinformatics, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden , Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research, Uppsala Universitet, Uppsala, Sweden

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

MCF, CW, VBB, JK, PC, and YH conceived and designed the experiments. MCF, VBB, and CK performed the experiments. MCF, LGW, AF, HK, SLT, VBB, TLB, and LH analyzed the data. MCF, CK, JK, PC, YH, TLB, and LH contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools. MCF and LH wrote the paper.