About the Authors

Franziska Hufsky

Affiliations European Virus Bioinformatics Center, Jena, Germany, RNA Bioinformatics and High-Throughput Analysis Jena, Friedrich Schiller University Jena, Jena, Germany

Bashar Ibrahim

Affiliations European Virus Bioinformatics Center, Jena, Germany, RNA Bioinformatics and High-Throughput Analysis Jena, Friedrich Schiller University Jena, Jena, Germany

Martin Beer

Affiliations European Virus Bioinformatics Center, Jena, Germany, Institute of Diagnostic Virology, Friedrich-Loeffler-Institute, Greifswald, Germany

Li Deng

Affiliations European Virus Bioinformatics Center, Jena, Germany, Institute of Virology, Helmholtz Zentrum Munich, Munich, Germany

Philippe Le Mercier

Affiliations European Virus Bioinformatics Center, Jena, Germany, Swiss-Prot group, SIB, CMU, University of Geneva Medical School, Geneva, Switzerland

Dino P. McMahon

Affiliations European Virus Bioinformatics Center, Jena, Germany, Host parasite evolution and ecology, Institute of Biology, Free University of Berlin, Berlin, Germany, Department for Materials and Environment, BAM, Federal Institute for Materials Research and Testing, Berlin, Germany

Massimo Palmarini

Affiliations European Virus Bioinformatics Center, Jena, Germany, MRC-University of Glasgow Centre for Virus Research, Glasgow, United Kingdom

Volker Thiel

Affiliations European Virus Bioinformatics Center, Jena, Germany, Federal Department of Home Affairs, Institute of Virology and Immunology, Bern and Mittelhäusern, Switzerland, Department of Infectious Diseases and Pathobiology, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland

Manja Marz

evbc@uni-jena.de

Affiliations European Virus Bioinformatics Center, Jena, Germany, RNA Bioinformatics and High-Throughput Analysis Jena, Friedrich Schiller University Jena, Jena, Germany

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.