About the Authors

Frank Emmert-Streib

v@bio-complexity.com

Affiliations Computational Biology and Machine Learning Lab, Center for Cancer Research and Cell Biology, School of Medicine, Dentistry and Biomedical Sciences, Queen’s University Belfast, Belfast, United Kingdom, Department of Biostatistics and Computational Biology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, Masachusetts, United States of America

Matthias Dehmer

Affiliation Institute for Bioinformatics and Translational Research, UMIT, Hall in Tyrol, Austria

Competing Interests

Drs. Frank Emmert-Streib and Matthias Dehmer are members of the PLoS ONE Editorial Board. This does not alter the authors’ adherence to all the PLoS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: FES MD. Performed the experiments: FES MD. Analyzed the data: FES MD. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: FES MD. Wrote the paper: FES MD.