About the Authors

Andrej Kuritzin

Affiliation Department of System Analysis, Saint Petersburg State Institute of Technology, St. Petersburg, Russia

Tabea Kischka

Affiliations Institute of Experimental Pathology (ZMBE), University of Münster, Münster, Germany, Institute of Bioinformatics, Faculty of Medicine, University of Münster, Münster, Germany

Jürgen Schmitz

Contributed equally to this work with: Jürgen Schmitz, Gennady Churakov

jueschm@uni-muenster.de (JS); churakov@uni-muenster.de (GC)

Affiliation Institute of Experimental Pathology (ZMBE), University of Münster, Münster, Germany

Gennady Churakov

Contributed equally to this work with: Jürgen Schmitz, Gennady Churakov

jueschm@uni-muenster.de (JS); churakov@uni-muenster.de (GC)

Affiliations Institute of Experimental Pathology (ZMBE), University of Münster, Münster, Germany, Institute of Evolution and Biodiversity, University of Münster, Münster, Germany

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: GC JS. Wrote the paper: GC JS. Derived the mathematical models and performed necessary calculations: AK. Built the R application: TK. Tested the R application: GC TK. Performed simulations: GC AK.