About the Authors

Ivo Fierro-Monti

Affiliation Center for Integrative Genomics, University of Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland

Julien Racle

Affiliations Laboratory of Computational Systems Biotechnology, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Lausanne, Switzerland, SIB Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics, Lausanne, Switzerland

Celine Hernandez

Affiliations Center for Integrative Genomics, University of Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland, SIB Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics, Vital-IT group, Lausanne, Switzerland

Patrice Waridel

Affiliation Center for Integrative Genomics, University of Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland

Vassily Hatzimanikatis

Affiliations Laboratory of Computational Systems Biotechnology, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Lausanne, Switzerland, SIB Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics, Lausanne, Switzerland

Manfredo Quadroni

manfredo.quadroni@unil.ch

Affiliation Center for Integrative Genomics, University of Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: IFM MQ. Performed the experiments: IFM PW MQ. Analyzed the data: IFM JR CH VH. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: JR CH VH. Wrote the paper: IFM JR VH MQ. Designed and applied mathematical model: JR.