About the Authors

Vladimir B Bajic

To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail: vlad@sanbi.ac.za

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

Sin Lam Tan

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

Alan Christoffels

Affiliations Temasek Life Sciences Laboratory, National University of Singapore, Singapore , School of Biological Sciences, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore

Christian Schönbach

Affiliation Immunoinformatics Research Team, Advanced Genome Information Technology Research Group, RIKEN Genomic Sciences Center, RIKEN Yokohama Institute, Yokohama, Japan

Leonard Lipovich

Affiliation Genome Institute of Singapore, Singapore

Liang Yang

Affiliation Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, National University Hospital, National University of Singapore, Singapore

Oliver Hofmann

Affiliation South African National Bioinformatics Institute, University of the Western Cape, Bellville, South Africa

Adele Kruger

Affiliation South African National Bioinformatics Institute, University of the Western Cape, Bellville, South Africa

Winston Hide

Affiliation South African National Bioinformatics Institute, University of the Western Cape, 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

David A Hume

Affiliation Australian Research Council Special Research Centre for Functional and Applied Genomics, Institute for Molecular Bioscience, University of Queensland, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia

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

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

VBB, JK, PC, and YH conceived and designed the experiments. VBB, SLT, and CK performed the experiments. VBB, SLT, AC, CS, LL, and OH analyzed the data. VBB, SLT, LY, OH, AK, WH, CK, JK, PC, and YH contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools. VBB, AC, CS, OH, and DAH wrote the paper.