About the Authors

Roland Arnold

Affiliation Technische Universität München, Department of Genome Oriented Bioinformatics, Wissenschaftszentrum Weihenstephan, Freising, Germany

Stefan Brandmaier

Affiliation Technische Universität München, Department of Genome Oriented Bioinformatics, Wissenschaftszentrum Weihenstephan, Freising, Germany

Frederick Kleine

Affiliation Technische Universität München, Department of Genome Oriented Bioinformatics, Wissenschaftszentrum Weihenstephan, Freising, Germany

Patrick Tischler

Affiliation Technische Universität München, Department of Genome Oriented Bioinformatics, Wissenschaftszentrum Weihenstephan, Freising, Germany

Eva Heinz

Affiliation Institute for Bioinformatics and Systems Biology (MIPS), Helmholtz Zentrum München, German Research Center for Environmental Health (GmbH), Neuherberg, Germany

Sebastian Behrens

Affiliation Technische Universität München, Department of Genome Oriented Bioinformatics, Wissenschaftszentrum Weihenstephan, Freising, Germany

Antti Niinikoski

Affiliation Technische Universität München, Department of Genome Oriented Bioinformatics, Wissenschaftszentrum Weihenstephan, Freising, Germany

Hans-Werner Mewes

Affiliation Institute for Bioinformatics and Systems Biology (MIPS), Helmholtz Zentrum München, German Research Center for Environmental Health (GmbH), Neuherberg, Germany

Matthias Horn

Affiliation University of Vienna, Department of Microbial Ecology, Vienna, Austria

Thomas Rattei

t.rattei@wzw.tum.de

Affiliation Technische Universität München, Department of Genome Oriented Bioinformatics, Wissenschaftszentrum Weihenstephan, Freising, Germany

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: R. Arnold, S. Brandmaier, F. Kleine, P. Tischler, E. Heinz, H. Mewes, M. Horn, T. Rattei. Performed the experiments: R. Arnold, S. Brandmaier, F. Kleine, P. Tischler, S. Behrens, A. Niinikoski. Analyzed the data: R. Arnold, S. Brandmaier, F. Kleine, P. Tischler, E. Heinz, S. Behrens, A. Niinikoski, M. Horn, T. Rattei. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: R. Arnold, S. Brandmaier, F. Kleine, P. Tischler, E. Heinz, S. Behrens, A. Niinikoski, M. Horn, T. Rattei. Wrote the paper: R. Arnold, S. Brandmaier, F. Kleine, P. Tischler, E. Heinz, S. Behrens, A. Niinikoski, H. Mewes, M. Horn, T. Rattei.