About the Authors

Ingeborg Scholz

Contributed equally to this work with: Ingeborg Scholz, Sita J. Lange

Affiliation Genetics and Experimental Bioinformatics Group, Faculty of Biology, University of Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany

Sita J. Lange

Contributed equally to this work with: Ingeborg Scholz, Sita J. Lange

Affiliation Bioinformatics Group, Department of Computer Science, University of Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany

Stephanie Hein

Affiliation Genetics and Experimental Bioinformatics Group, Faculty of Biology, University of Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany

Wolfgang R. Hess

wolfgang.hess@biologie.uni-freiburg.de

Affiliation Genetics and Experimental Bioinformatics Group, Faculty of Biology, University of Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany

Rolf Backofen

Affiliation Bioinformatics Group, Department of Computer Science, University of Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Constructed the algorithmic approach and performed the secondary structure predictions: RB SJL. Conceived and designed the experiments: WRH RB IS. Performed the experiments: IS SH. Analyzed the data: SJL RB WRH. Wrote the paper: SJL WRH RB SH IS.