About the Authors

Amit Kawalia

Contributed equally to this work with: Amit Kawalia, Susanne Motameny

akawalia@uni-koeln.de

Affiliation Cologne Center for Genomics, University of Cologne, Cologne, Germany

Susanne Motameny

Contributed equally to this work with: Amit Kawalia, Susanne Motameny

Affiliation Cologne Center for Genomics, University of Cologne, Cologne, Germany

Stephan Wonczak

Affiliation Regional Computing Center Cologne, University of Cologne, Cologne, Germany

Holger Thiele

Affiliation Cologne Center for Genomics, University of Cologne, Cologne, Germany

Lech Nieroda

Affiliation Regional Computing Center Cologne, University of Cologne, Cologne, Germany

Kamel Jabbari

Affiliation Cologne Center for Genomics, University of Cologne, Cologne, Germany

Stefan Borowski

Affiliation Regional Computing Center Cologne, University of Cologne, Cologne, Germany

Vishal Sinha

Current address: Institute for Molecular Medicine Finland (FIMM), Nordic EMBL Partnership for Molecular Medicine, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland

Affiliation Cologne Center for Genomics, University of Cologne, Cologne, Germany

Wilfried Gunia

Affiliation Cologne Center for Genomics, University of Cologne, Cologne, Germany

Ulrich Lang

Affiliation Regional Computing Center Cologne, University of Cologne, Cologne, Germany

Viktor Achter

Affiliation Regional Computing Center Cologne, University of Cologne, Cologne, Germany

Peter Nürnberg

Affiliation Cologne Center for Genomics, University of Cologne, Cologne, Germany

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Wrote the paper: AK SM. Designed and implemented the workflow: AK SM. Contributed parts of the workflow: HT KJ VS WG. Guided the workflow design and implementation as an expert panel: LN SB SW VA. Provided the HPC infrastructure: UL. Obtained funding: PN SM.