About the Authors

Anja Bethge

Affiliation Competence Center Bioinformatics, Institute for Applied Computer Science, University of Applied Sciences Stralsund, Stralsund, Germany

Udo Schumacher

Affiliation Institute for Anatomy and Experimental Morphology, University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, Hamburg, Germany

Andreas Wree

Affiliation Institute of Anatomy, University of Rostock, Rostock, Germany

Gero Wedemann

gero.wedemann@fh-stralsund.de

Affiliation Competence Center Bioinformatics, Institute for Applied Computer Science, University of Applied Sciences Stralsund, Stralsund, Germany

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: AB US AW GW. Performed the experiments: AB. Analyzed the data: AB US GW. Wrote the paper: AB US GW. Developed the computer model: GW.