About the Authors

Thomas S. B. Schmidt

Affiliation Institute for Molecular Life Sciences and Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics, University of Zurich, Zürich, Switzerland

João F. Matias Rodrigues

Affiliation Institute for Molecular Life Sciences and Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics, University of Zurich, Zürich, Switzerland

Christian von Mering

mering@imls.uzh.ch

Affiliation Institute for Molecular Life Sciences and Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics, University of Zurich, Zürich, Switzerland

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: TSBS CvM. Performed the experiments: TSBS CvM. Analyzed the data: TSBS JFMR. Wrote the paper: TSBS CvM.