About the Authors

Luxian Zhou

Contributed equally to this work with: Luxian Zhou, Stella Pelengaris

Affiliation School of Life Sciences, University of Warwick, Coventry, United Kingdom

Stella Pelengaris

Contributed equally to this work with: Luxian Zhou, Stella Pelengaris

Affiliation Warwick Medical School, University of Warwick, Coventry, United Kingdom

Sylvie Abouna

Affiliation School of Life Sciences, University of Warwick, Coventry, United Kingdom

James Young

Affiliation Warwick Medical School, University of Warwick, Coventry, United Kingdom

David Epstein

Affiliation Department of Mathematics, University of Warwick, Coventry, United Kingdom

Julia Herold

Affiliation Biodata Mining Group, Bielefeld University, Bielefeld, Germany

Tim Wilhelm Nattkemper

Affiliation Biodata Mining Group, Bielefeld University, Bielefeld, Germany

Hassan Nakhai

Affiliation School of Life Sciences, University of Warwick, Coventry, United Kingdom

Michael Khan

Michael.Khan@warwick.ac.uk

Affiliation Warwick Medical School, University of Warwick, Coventry, United Kingdom

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: LZ SP MK. Performed the experiments: LZ SP. Analyzed the data: LZ SP DE MK. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: SA JY HN JH TWN. Wrote the paper: LZ DE TWN MK.