About the Authors

Mohammadkarim Saeedghalati

Affiliation Bioinformatics and Computational Biophysics, Faculty of Biology, University of Duisburg-Essen, Essen, Germany

Farnoush Farahpour

Affiliation Bioinformatics and Computational Biophysics, Faculty of Biology, University of Duisburg-Essen, Essen, Germany

Bettina Budeus

Affiliation Bioinformatics and Computational Biophysics, Faculty of Biology, University of Duisburg-Essen, Essen, Germany

Anja Lange

Affiliation Bioinformatics and Computational Biophysics, Faculty of Biology, University of Duisburg-Essen, Essen, Germany

Astrid M. Westendorf

Affiliations Center for Medical Biotechnology, University of Duisburg-Essen, Essen, Germany, Institute of Medical Microbiology, Medical Faculty, University of Duisburg-Essen, Essen, Germany

Marc Seifert

Affiliation Institute of Cell Biology (Cancer Research), Medical Faculty, University of Duisburg-Essen, Essen, Germany

Ralf Küppers

Affiliations Center for Medical Biotechnology, University of Duisburg-Essen, Essen, Germany, Institute of Cell Biology (Cancer Research), Medical Faculty, University of Duisburg-Essen, Essen, Germany

Daniel Hoffmann

daniel.hoffmann@uni-due.de

Affiliations Bioinformatics and Computational Biophysics, Faculty of Biology, University of Duisburg-Essen, Essen, Germany, Center for Medical Biotechnology, University of Duisburg-Essen, Essen, Germany, Center for Computational Sciences and Simulation, University of Duisburg-Essen, Essen, Germany, Center for Water and Environmental Research, University of Duisburg-Essen, Essen, Germany

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceptualization: MSa FF DH. Data curation: MSa FF BB. Formal analysis: MSa FF DH. Funding acquisition: RK DH. Investigation: MSa FF DH. Methodology: MSa FF DH. Project administration: DH. Resources: MSa FF MSe RK BB DH. Software: MSa FF DH. Supervision: RK AMW DH. Validation: MSa FF RK MSe AMW DH. Visualization: MSa FF DH. Writing – original draft: MSa FF DH. Writing – review & editing: MSa FF BB AL AMW MSe RK DH.