About the Authors

Bettina Budeus

Affiliation Research Group Bioinformatics, Faculty of Biology, University of Duisburg-Essen, Essen, NRW, Germany

Jörg Timm

Affiliation Institute for Virology, University Hospital Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf, NRW, Germany

Daniel Hoffmann

daniel.hoffmann@uni-due.de

Affiliation Research Group Bioinformatics, Faculty of Biology, University of Duisburg-Essen, Essen, NRW, Germany

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Performed the experiments: BB DH. Analyzed the data: BB JT DH. Wrote the paper: BB JT DH. Selected and devised methods: DH. Developed software: BB. Provided data: JT .