About the Authors

Ulf Schaefer

Affiliation Computational Bioscience Research Center (CBRC), King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, Thuwal, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia

Rimantas Kodzius

Affiliation Division of Physical Sciences and Engineering, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, Thuwal, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia

Chikatoshi Kai

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

Jun Kawai

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

Piero Carninci

Affiliation Genome Science Laboratory, Discovery Research Institute, RIKEN Wako Institute, Wako, Saitama, Japan

Yoshihide Hayashizaki

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

Vladimir B. Bajic

vladimir.bajic@kaust.edu.sa

Affiliation Computational Bioscience Research Center (CBRC), King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, Thuwal, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: US VBB. Performed the experiments: US RK. Analyzed the data: US VBB. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: RK CK JK PC YH VBB. Wrote the paper: US VBB.