About the Authors

Tzu-Ming Chern

Contributed equally to this work with: Tzu-Ming Chern, Erik van Nimwegen

Affiliation Division of Bioinformatics, Biozentrum, University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland

Erik van Nimwegen

Contributed equally to this work with: Tzu-Ming Chern, Erik van Nimwegen

Affiliation Division of Bioinformatics, Biozentrum, University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland

Chikatoshi Kai

Affiliation Genome Exploration Research Group (Genome Network Project Core Group) RIKEN Genomic Sciences Center, RIKEN Yokohama Institute, Yokohama, Japan

Jun Kawai

Affiliations Genome Exploration Research Group (Genome Network Project Core Group) RIKEN Genomic Sciences Center, RIKEN Yokohama Institute, Yokohama, Japan , Genome Science Laboratory, Discovery Research Institute, RIKEN Wako Institute, Wako, Japan

Piero Carninci

Affiliations Genome Exploration Research Group (Genome Network Project Core Group) RIKEN Genomic Sciences Center, RIKEN Yokohama Institute, Yokohama, Japan , Genome Science Laboratory, Discovery Research Institute, RIKEN Wako Institute, Wako, Japan

Yoshihide Hayashizaki

Affiliations Genome Exploration Research Group (Genome Network Project Core Group) RIKEN Genomic Sciences Center, RIKEN Yokohama Institute, Yokohama, Japan , Genome Science Laboratory, Discovery Research Institute, RIKEN Wako Institute, Wako, Japan

Mihaela Zavolan

To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail: mihaela.zavolan@unibas.ch

Affiliation Division of Bioinformatics, Biozentrum, University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

EvN and MZ conceived and designed the experiments. TMC, EvN, and MZ performed the experiments and analyzed the data. TMC, EvN, CK, JK, PC, YH, and MZ contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools. EvN and MZ wrote the paper.