About the Authors

Stephan Aiche

stephan.aiche@fu-berlin.de

Affiliations Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, Freie Universität Berlin, Berlin, Germany, International Max Planck Research School for Computational Biology and Scientific Computing, Berlin, Germany

Knut Reinert

Affiliation Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, Freie Universität Berlin, Berlin, Germany

Christof Schütte

Affiliation Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, Freie Universität Berlin, Berlin, Germany

Diana Hildebrand

Affiliation Institute of Clinical Chemistry, University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, Hamburg, Germany

Hartmut Schlüter

Affiliation Institute of Clinical Chemistry, University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, Hamburg, Germany

Tim O. F. Conrad

Affiliation Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, Freie Universität Berlin, Berlin, Germany

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: TC KR HS SA. Performed the experiments: SA DH. Analyzed the data: SA. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: DH HS CS. Wrote the paper: SA. Provided background for the parameter estimation problem and the associated model discrimination problem: CS. Advised the mass spectrometry analysis: TC KR HS.