About the Authors

Anand K. Gavai

Contributed equally to this work with: Anand K. Gavai, Farahaniza Supandi, Hannes Hettling

anand.gavai@bioinformatics.nl

Affiliations Centre for Integrative Bioinformatics, VU University, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, Netherlands Consortium for Systems Biology (NCSB), Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Farahaniza Supandi

Contributed equally to this work with: Anand K. Gavai, Farahaniza Supandi, Hannes Hettling

Affiliations Section Functional Genomics, Dept. Clinical Genetics, VU University Medical Center,Amsterdam, The Netherlands, Institute of Biological Sciences, Faculty of Science, University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

Hannes Hettling

Contributed equally to this work with: Anand K. Gavai, Farahaniza Supandi, Hannes Hettling

Affiliations Centre for Integrative Bioinformatics, VU University, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, Netherlands Consortium for Systems Biology (NCSB), Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Paul Murrell

Affiliation Department of Statistics, The University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand

Jack A. M. Leunissen

† Deceased.

Affiliation Laboratory of Bioinformatics, Wageningen University, Wageningen, The Netherlands

Johannes H. G. M. van Beek

Affiliations Centre for Integrative Bioinformatics, VU University, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, Netherlands Consortium for Systems Biology (NCSB), Amsterdam, The Netherlands, Section Functional Genomics, Dept. Clinical Genetics, VU University Medical Center,Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: AKG JHGMVB. Performed the experiments: AKG HH. Analyzed the data: FS JHGMVB. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: FS AKG HH JHGMVB JAML PM. Wrote the paper: AKG HH FS JHGMVB JAML PM. Hypergraph visualization: AKG PM. Matlab tests: JHGMVB.