About the Authors

Nicoló Fusi

Contributed equally to this work with: Nicoló Fusi, Oliver Stegle

nicolo.fusi@sheffield.ac.uk (NF); oliver.stegle@tuebingen.mpg.de (OS); N.Lawrence@sheffield.ac.uk (NDL)

Affiliation Sheffield Institute for Translational Neuroscience, University of Sheffield, Sheffield, United Kingdom

Oliver Stegle

Contributed equally to this work with: Nicoló Fusi, Oliver Stegle

nicolo.fusi@sheffield.ac.uk (NF); oliver.stegle@tuebingen.mpg.de (OS); N.Lawrence@sheffield.ac.uk (NDL)

Affiliation Machine Learning and Computational Biology Research Group, Max Planck Institute for Developmental Biology, Tübingen, Germany

Neil D. Lawrence

nicolo.fusi@sheffield.ac.uk (NF); oliver.stegle@tuebingen.mpg.de (OS); N.Lawrence@sheffield.ac.uk (NDL)

Affiliation Sheffield Institute for Translational Neuroscience, University of Sheffield, Sheffield, United Kingdom

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: NF OS NDL. Performed the experiments: NF OS NDL. Analyzed the data: NF OS NDL. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: NF OS NDL. Wrote the paper: NF OS NDL.