About the Authors

Heike Zabeck

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

heike.zabeck@med.uni-heidelberg.de

Affiliation Department of Thoracic Surgery, Thoraxklinik, University Hospital Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany

Hendrik Dienemann

Roles Funding acquisition, Supervision

Affiliation Department of Thoracic Surgery, Thoraxklinik, University Hospital Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany

Hans Hoffmann

Roles Conceptualization, Supervision

Affiliations Department of Thoracic Surgery, Thoraxklinik, University Hospital Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany, Translational Lung Research Centre Heidelberg (TLRC-H), German Centre for Lung Research (DZL), Heidelberg, Germany

Joachim Pfannschmidt

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Supervision

Current address: Department of Thoracic Surgery, Lung Clinic Heckeshorn at HELIOS Hospital Emil von Behring, Berlin, Germany

Affiliation Department of Thoracic Surgery, Thoraxklinik, University Hospital Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany

Arne Warth

Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Supervision, Validation

Affiliations Translational Lung Research Centre Heidelberg (TLRC-H), German Centre for Lung Research (DZL), Heidelberg, Germany, Institute of Pathology, University Hospital Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany

Philipp A. Schnabel

Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Supervision

Current address: Institute of Pathology, Saarland University, Homburg/Saar, Germany

Affiliation Institute of Pathology, University Hospital Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany

Thomas Muley

Roles Data curation, Methodology

Affiliations Translational Lung Research Centre Heidelberg (TLRC-H), German Centre for Lung Research (DZL), Heidelberg, Germany, Translational Research Unit (STF), Thoraxklinik, University of Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany

Michael Meister

Roles Methodology

Affiliations Translational Lung Research Centre Heidelberg (TLRC-H), German Centre for Lung Research (DZL), Heidelberg, Germany, Translational Research Unit (STF), Thoraxklinik, University of Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany

Holger Sültmann

Roles Supervision

Affiliations Translational Lung Research Centre Heidelberg (TLRC-H), German Centre for Lung Research (DZL), Heidelberg, Germany, Cancer Genome Research (B063), German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ) and German Cancer Consortium (DKTK), Heidelberg, Germany

Holger Fröhlich

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Software, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Institute for Computer Science, c/o Bonn-Aachen International Center for IT, Algorithmic Bioinformatics, University of Bonn, Bonn, Germany

Ruprecht Kuner

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Software, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Current address: TRON—Translational Oncology at the University Medical Center of Johannes Gutenberg University, Mainz, Germany

Affiliations Translational Lung Research Centre Heidelberg (TLRC-H), German Centre for Lung Research (DZL), Heidelberg, Germany, Cancer Genome Research (B063), German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ) and German Cancer Consortium (DKTK), Heidelberg, Germany

Felix Lasitschka

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Institute of Pathology, University Hospital Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.