About the Authors

Franziska Herrmann

Contributed equally to this work with: Franziska Herrmann, Alexander Groß

Affiliations Research Group Bioinformatics and Systems Biology, Institute for Neural Information Processing, Ulm University, Ulm, Germany, Institute for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Ulm University, Ulm, Germany, International Graduate School in Molecular Medicine, Ulm University, Ulm, Germany

Alexander Groß

Contributed equally to this work with: Franziska Herrmann, Alexander Groß

Affiliations Research Group Bioinformatics and Systems Biology, Institute for Neural Information Processing, Ulm University, Ulm, Germany, International Graduate School in Molecular Medicine, Ulm University, Ulm, Germany

Dao Zhou

Affiliation Research Group Bioinformatics and Systems Biology, Institute for Neural Information Processing, Ulm University, Ulm, Germany

Hans A. Kestler

michael.kuehl@uni-ulm.de (HK); hans.kestler@uni-ulm.de (MK)

Affiliation Research Group Bioinformatics and Systems Biology, Institute for Neural Information Processing, Ulm University, Ulm, Germany

Michael Kühl

michael.kuehl@uni-ulm.de (HK); hans.kestler@uni-ulm.de (MK)

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

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: HAK MK. Wrote the paper: AG FH MK HAK. Reviewed the literature and specified the model equations: FH. Implemented the model: DZ. Carried out the simulations: AG DZ FH. Analyzed the results, prepared the figures and supplements AG FH.