About the Authors

Giusi Moffa

giusi.moffa@gmail.com

Affiliation Department of Statistical Bioinformatics, Institute of Functional Genomics, University of Regensburg, Regensburg, Germany

Gerrit Erdmann

Affiliation Division of Signaling and Functional Genomics, German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ) and Department of Cell and Molecular Biology, Faculty of Medicine Mannheim, Heidelberg University, Heidelberg, Germany

Oksana Voloshanenko

Affiliation Division of Signaling and Functional Genomics, German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ) and Department of Cell and Molecular Biology, Faculty of Medicine Mannheim, Heidelberg University, Heidelberg, Germany

Christian Hundsrucker

Affiliation Department of Statistical Bioinformatics, Institute of Functional Genomics, University of Regensburg, Regensburg, Germany

Mohammad J. Sadeh

Affiliation Department of Statistical Bioinformatics, Institute of Functional Genomics, University of Regensburg, Regensburg, Germany

Michael Boutros

Affiliation Division of Signaling and Functional Genomics, German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ) and Department of Cell and Molecular Biology, Faculty of Medicine Mannheim, Heidelberg University, Heidelberg, Germany

Rainer Spang

Affiliation Department of Statistical Bioinformatics, Institute of Functional Genomics, University of Regensburg, Regensburg, Germany

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: MB RS. Performed the experiments: OV GE. Analyzed the data: GM CH. Wrote the paper: GM RS. Developed the statistical method: GM RS MJS.