About the Authors

Daniel R. Mende

Contributed equally to this work with: Daniel R. Mende, Alison S. Waller

Affiliation European Molecular Biology Laboratory, Heidelberg, Germany

Alison S. Waller

Contributed equally to this work with: Daniel R. Mende, Alison S. Waller

Affiliation European Molecular Biology Laboratory, Heidelberg, Germany

Shinichi Sunagawa

Affiliation European Molecular Biology Laboratory, Heidelberg, Germany

Aino I. Järvelin

Affiliation European Molecular Biology Laboratory, Heidelberg, Germany

Michelle M. Chan

Affiliation Computational and Systems Biology Program, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge Massachusetts, United States of America

Manimozhiyan Arumugam

Affiliation European Molecular Biology Laboratory, Heidelberg, Germany

Jeroen Raes

Affiliation VIB, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Brussels, Belgium

Peer Bork

bork@embl.de

Affiliations European Molecular Biology Laboratory, Heidelberg, Germany, Max Delbrück Centre for Molecular Medicine, Berlin, Germany

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: ASW DRM SS JR PB. Performed the experiments: ASW DRM SS AIJ MMC MA JR. Analyzed the data: ASW DRM SS. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: ASW DRM SS AIJ MMC MA. Wrote the paper: ASW DRM PB.