About the Authors

Ignat Drozdov

Contributed equally to this work with: Ignat Drozdov, Jan Bornschein

peter.malfertheiner@med.ovgu.de (PM); ignat.drozdov@kcl.ac.uk (ID)

Affiliations British Heart Foundation Centre of Excellence, King's College London, London, United Kingdom, Centre for Bioinformatics, Department of Informatics, School of Natural and Mathematical Sciences, King's College London, London, United Kingdom

Jan Bornschein

Contributed equally to this work with: Ignat Drozdov, Jan Bornschein

Affiliation Department of Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Infectious Diseases, Otto-von-Guericke-University of Magdeburg, Magdeburg, Germany

Thomas Wex

Affiliation Department of Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Infectious Diseases, Otto-von-Guericke-University of Magdeburg, Magdeburg, Germany

Najl V. Valeyev

Affiliation Centre for Systems, Dynamics and Control, College of Engineering, Mathematics and Physical Sciences, University of Exeter, Exeter, United Kingdom

Sophia Tsoka

Affiliation Centre for Bioinformatics, Department of Informatics, School of Natural and Mathematical Sciences, King's College London, London, United Kingdom

Peter Malfertheiner

peter.malfertheiner@med.ovgu.de (PM); ignat.drozdov@kcl.ac.uk (ID)

Affiliation Department of Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Infectious Diseases, Otto-von-Guericke-University of Magdeburg, Magdeburg, Germany

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: ID JB TW ST PM. Performed the experiments: ID JB TW. Analyzed the data: ID JB NV TW ST. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: ID JB TW PM. Wrote the paper: ID JB ST PM.