About the Authors

Melanie Grieb

Contributed equally to this work with: Melanie Grieb, Andre Burkovski, J. Eric Sträng

Affiliations Core Unit Medical Systems Biology, Ulm University, Ulm, Germany, International Graduate School of Molecular Medicine, Ulm University, Ulm, Germany

Andre Burkovski

Contributed equally to this work with: Melanie Grieb, Andre Burkovski, J. Eric Sträng

Affiliations Core Unit Medical Systems Biology, Ulm University, Ulm, Germany, Neural Information Processing, Ulm University, Ulm, Germany, International Graduate School of Molecular Medicine, Ulm University, Ulm, Germany

J. Eric Sträng

Contributed equally to this work with: Melanie Grieb, Andre Burkovski, J. Eric Sträng

Affiliation Core Unit Medical Systems Biology, Ulm University, Ulm, Germany

Johann M. Kraus

Affiliation Core Unit Medical Systems Biology, Ulm University, Ulm, Germany

Alexander Groß

Affiliation Leibniz Institute for Age Research, Fritz-Lipmann Institute, Jena, Germany

Günther Palm

Affiliation Neural Information Processing, Ulm University, Ulm, Germany

Michael Kühl

michael.kuehl@uni-ulm.de (MK); hkestler@fli-leibniz.de (HAK)

Affiliation Institute for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Ulm University, Ulm, Germany

Hans A. Kestler

michael.kuehl@uni-ulm.de (MK); hkestler@fli-leibniz.de (HAK)

Affiliations Leibniz Institute for Age Research, Fritz-Lipmann Institute, Jena, Germany, Core Unit Medical Systems Biology, Ulm University, Ulm, Germany, Neural Information Processing, Ulm University, Ulm, Germany

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: HAK MK GP. Performed the experiments: MG AB JES. Analyzed the data: JMK JES MK. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: HAK. Wrote the paper: MG AB JES AG MK HAK.