About the Authors

Yingying Zhang

Contributed equally to this work with: Yingying Zhang, Christian Rohde, Sascha Tierling

Affiliation School of Engineering and Science, Jacobs University Bremen, Bremen, Germany

Christian Rohde

Contributed equally to this work with: Yingying Zhang, Christian Rohde, Sascha Tierling

Affiliation School of Engineering and Science, Jacobs University Bremen, Bremen, Germany

Sascha Tierling

Contributed equally to this work with: Yingying Zhang, Christian Rohde, Sascha Tierling

Affiliation Institut für Genetik, FB Biowissenschaften, Universität des Saarlandes, Saarbrücken, Germany

Tomasz P. Jurkowski

Affiliation School of Engineering and Science, Jacobs University Bremen, Bremen, Germany

Christoph Bock

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

Diana Santacruz

Affiliation Institut für Genetik, FB Biowissenschaften, Universität des Saarlandes, Saarbrücken, Germany

Sergey Ragozin

Affiliation School of Engineering and Science, Jacobs University Bremen, Bremen, Germany

Richard Reinhardt

Affiliation Max Planck Institute for Molecular Genetics, Berlin-Dahlem, Germany

Marco Groth

Affiliation Leibniz-Institute for Age Research—Fritz-Lipmann-Institute, Jena, Germany

Jörn Walter

j.walter@mx.uni-saarland.de (JW); a.jeltsch@jacobs-university.de (AJ)

Affiliation Institut für Genetik, FB Biowissenschaften, Universität des Saarlandes, Saarbrücken, Germany

Albert Jeltsch

j.walter@mx.uni-saarland.de (JW); a.jeltsch@jacobs-university.de (AJ)

Affiliation School of Engineering and Science, Jacobs University Bremen, Bremen, Germany

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: YZ CR ST SR RR JW AJ. Performed the experiments: YZ CR ST SR RR MG. Analyzed the data: YZ CR ST CB DS RR MG AJ. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: TPJ CB RR. Wrote the paper: YZ CR ST CB JW AJ.