About the Authors

Christoph Bock

To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail: cbock@mpi-inf.mpg.de

Affiliation Max-Planck-Institut für Informatik, Saarbrücken, Germany

Martina Paulsen

Affiliation Universität des Saarlandes, Genetik/Epigenetik, Saarbrücken, Germany

Sascha Tierling

Affiliation Universität des Saarlandes, Genetik/Epigenetik, Saarbrücken, Germany

Thomas Mikeska

Affiliation Universität des Saarlandes, Genetik/Epigenetik, Saarbrücken, Germany

Thomas Lengauer

Affiliation Max-Planck-Institut für Informatik, Saarbrücken, Germany

Jörn Walter

Affiliation Universität des Saarlandes, Genetik/Epigenetik, Saarbrücken, Germany

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

CB conceptualized the study, performed data preparation and analysis, and wrote the manuscript. ST and TM performed and evaluated the bisulphite sequencing experiments. MP and JW contributed to the interpretation of the results, and TL supervised the work. All authors contributed to the writing of the manuscript and have read and approved the manuscript.