About the Authors

Piotr Zakrzewski

Contributed equally to this work with: Piotr Zakrzewski, Marnix H. Medema

Affiliations Department of Microbial Physiology, University of Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands, Groningen Bioinformatics Centre, University of Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands

Marnix H. Medema

Contributed equally to this work with: Piotr Zakrzewski, Marnix H. Medema

Affiliations Department of Microbial Physiology, University of Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands, Groningen Bioinformatics Centre, University of Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands

Albert Gevorgyan

Affiliation Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences, University of Surrey, Guildford, Surrey, United Kingdom

Andrzej M. Kierzek

Affiliation Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences, University of Surrey, Guildford, Surrey, United Kingdom

Rainer Breitling

rainer.breitling@glasgow.ac.uk (RB); e.takano@rug.nl (ET)

Affiliations Groningen Bioinformatics Centre, University of Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands, Institute of Molecular, Cell and Systems Biology, College of Medical, Veterinary and Life Sciences, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, United Kingdom

Eriko Takano

rainer.breitling@glasgow.ac.uk (RB); e.takano@rug.nl (ET)

Affiliation Department of Microbial Physiology, University of Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Wrote the software: PZ. Contributed code: AG. Conceived and designed the experiments: PZ MHM RB ET. Performed the experiments: PZ MHM. Analyzed the data: PZ MHM RB ET. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: AG AMK. Wrote the paper: MHM AMK RB ET.