About the Authors

Stefanie Meyer

Contributed equally to this work with: Stefanie Meyer, Thomas J. Fuchs

Affiliation Department of Dermatology, University Hospital of Regensburg, Regensburg, Germany

Thomas J. Fuchs

Contributed equally to this work with: Stefanie Meyer, Thomas J. Fuchs

Affiliations Department of Computer Science, ETH Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland, Competence Center for Systems Physiology and Metabolic Diseases, Institute of Cell Biology, Zurich, Switzerland

Anja K. Bosserhoff

Affiliation Institute of Pathology, University Hospital of Regensburg, Regensburg, Germany

Ferdinand Hofstädter

Affiliation Institute of Pathology, University Hospital of Regensburg, Regensburg, Germany

Armin Pauer

Affiliation Central Tumor Registry Regensburg, Regensburg, Germany

Volker Roth

Affiliation Department of Computer Science, University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland

Joachim M. Buhmann

Affiliations Department of Computer Science, ETH Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland, Competence Center for Systems Physiology and Metabolic Diseases, Institute of Cell Biology, Zurich, Switzerland

Ingrid Moll

Affiliation Department of Dermatology, University Hospital of Hamburg-Eppendorf, Hamburg, Germany

Nikos Anagnostou

Affiliation Department of Dermatology, University Hospital of Hamburg-Eppendorf, Hamburg, Germany

Johanna M. Brandner

Affiliation Department of Dermatology, University Hospital of Hamburg-Eppendorf, Hamburg, Germany

Kristian Ikenberg

Affiliation Institute of Surgical Pathology, University Hospital Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland

Holger Moch

Affiliation Institute of Surgical Pathology, University Hospital Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland

Michael Landthaler

Affiliation Department of Dermatology, University Hospital of Regensburg, Regensburg, Germany

Thomas Vogt

These authors are joint senior authors on this work.

Affiliation Department of Dermatology, Saarland University Hospital, Homburg/Saar, Germany

Peter J. Wild

peter.wild@usz.ch

These authors are joint senior authors on this work.

Affiliation Institute of Surgical Pathology, University Hospital Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland

Competing Interests

SM, TJF, AKB, and PJW are inventors on pending patent B70261. FH, AP, VR, J. Brandner, IM, NA, J. Buhmann, KI, HM, ML, and TV have declared that no competing interests exist. This does not alter the authors' adherence to all the PLoS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: SM TJF AKB TV PJW. Performed the experiments: SM IM NA J. Brandner KI ML TV PJW. Analyzed the data: TJF AP VR J. Buhmann. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: AKB FH AP VR J. Brandner IM NA J. Buhmann HM ML TV. Wrote the paper: SM TJF AKB FH HM PJW.