About the Authors

Björn Titz

Contributed equally to this work with: Björn Titz, Seesandra V. Rajagopala

Current address: Crump Institute for Molecular Imaging, University of California, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

Affiliation Institute of Genetics, Forschungszentrum Karlsruhe, Karlsruhe, Germany

Seesandra V. Rajagopala

Contributed equally to this work with: Björn Titz, Seesandra V. Rajagopala

Affiliations Institute of Genetics, Forschungszentrum Karlsruhe, Karlsruhe, Germany, The Institute of Genomic Research (TIGR) and J Craig Venter Institute (JCVI), Rockville, Maryland, United States of America

Johannes Goll

Affiliation Institute of Genetics, Forschungszentrum Karlsruhe, Karlsruhe, Germany

Roman Häuser

Affiliation Institute of Genetics, Forschungszentrum Karlsruhe, Karlsruhe, Germany

Matthew T. McKevitt

Affiliation Department of Molecular Virology and Microbiology, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, Houston, United States of America

Timothy Palzkill

Affiliation Department of Molecular Virology and Microbiology, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, Houston, United States of America

Peter Uetz

uetz@jcvi.org

Affiliations Institute of Genetics, Forschungszentrum Karlsruhe, Karlsruhe, Germany, The Institute of Genomic Research (TIGR) and J Craig Venter Institute (JCVI), Rockville, Maryland, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: PU BT. Performed the experiments: SR BT RH. Analyzed the data: PU SR JG BT. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: TP MM. Wrote the paper: PU BT.