About the Authors

Wolfgang Kaisers

kaisers@med.uni-duesseldorf.de

Current address: Department of Anaesthesiology, Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf, Germany

Affiliation Center for Bioinformatics and Biostatistics, BMFZ, Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf, Germany

Petra Boukamp

Affiliations IUF - Leibniz Research Institute for Environmental Medicine, Düsseldorf, Germany, German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), Heidelberg, Germany

Hans-Jürgen Stark

Affiliation German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), Heidelberg, Germany

Holger Schwender

Affiliations Center for Bioinformatics and Biostatistics, BMFZ, Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf, Germany, Mathematical Institute, Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf, Germany

Julia Tigges

Affiliation IUF - Leibniz Research Institute for Environmental Medicine, Düsseldorf, Germany

Jean Krutmann

Affiliations IUF - Leibniz Research Institute for Environmental Medicine, Düsseldorf, Germany, Medical Faculty, Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf, Germany

Heiner Schaal

Affiliation Institut für Virologie, Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf, Germany

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceptualization: H. Schaal PB JK WK. Data curation: WK. Formal analysis: WK. Funding acquisition: JK PB H. Schaal H. Schwender. Investigation: JT HJS H. Schaal WK. Methodology: WK. Project administration: JK PB H. Schaal. Resources: JK WK H. Schwender. Software: WK. Supervision: H. Schaal JK PB. Visualization: WK PB HJS. Writing – original draft: WK. Writing – review & editing: H. Schwender H. Schaal PB.