About the Authors

Sarah Leigh-Brown

Contributed equally to this work with: Sarah Leigh-Brown, Angela Goncalves

Affiliation University of Cambridge, Cancer Research UK - Cambridge Institute, Li Ka Shing Centre, Cambridge, United Kingdom

Angela Goncalves

Contributed equally to this work with: Sarah Leigh-Brown, Angela Goncalves

Affiliations European Molecular Biology Laboratory, European Bioinformatics Institute, Wellcome Trust Genome Campus, Hinxton, Cambridge, United Kingdom, Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Wellcome Trust Genome Campus, Hinxton, Cambridge, United Kingdom

David Thybert

Affiliation European Molecular Biology Laboratory, European Bioinformatics Institute, Wellcome Trust Genome Campus, Hinxton, Cambridge, United Kingdom

Klara Stefflova

Affiliation California Institute of Technology, Division of Biology, Pasadena, California, United States of America

Stephen Watt

Affiliation Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Wellcome Trust Genome Campus, Hinxton, Cambridge, United Kingdom

Paul Flicek

Affiliation European Molecular Biology Laboratory, European Bioinformatics Institute, Wellcome Trust Genome Campus, Hinxton, Cambridge, United Kingdom

Alvis Brazma

Affiliation European Molecular Biology Laboratory, European Bioinformatics Institute, Wellcome Trust Genome Campus, Hinxton, Cambridge, United Kingdom

John C. Marioni

Duncan.odom@cruk.cam.ac.uk (DTO); marioni@ebi.ac.uk (JCM)

Affiliation European Molecular Biology Laboratory, European Bioinformatics Institute, Wellcome Trust Genome Campus, Hinxton, Cambridge, United Kingdom

Duncan T. Odom

Duncan.odom@cruk.cam.ac.uk (DTO); marioni@ebi.ac.uk (JCM)

Affiliations University of Cambridge, Cancer Research UK - Cambridge Institute, Li Ka Shing Centre, Cambridge, United Kingdom, Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Wellcome Trust Genome Campus, Hinxton, Cambridge, United Kingdom

Competing Interests

Since performing the experimental work and writing this manuscript, SLB has taken paid employment at Abcam, a Biotech firm selling reagents to research scientists. Abcam have no interest in the submitted manuscript and NO Abcam products were used for this experimental work. The authors do not consider this to be a competing interest, and the authors declare it here so that the reviewers may be fully informed.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: DTO JCM SLB AG KS DT. Performed the experiments: SLB SW. Analyzed the data: AG JCM DT SLB AB. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: PF DT KS AB. Wrote the paper: SLB AG JCM DTO. Provided Castaneus genome: PF. Generated Castaneus transcriptome: DT.