About the Authors

Ciira wa Maina

cwamaina.dekut@gmail.com (CwM); n.lawrence@sheffield.ac.uk (NDL); magnus.rattray@manchester.ac.uk (MR)

Affiliation Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Dedan Kimathi University of Technology, Nyeri, Kenya

Antti Honkela

Affiliation Helsinki Institute for Information Technology HIIT, Department of Computer Science, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland

Filomena Matarese

Affiliation Nijmegen Centre for Molecular Life Sciences, Radboud University Nijmegen, Nijmegen, The Netherlands

Korbinian Grote

Affiliation Genomatix Software GmbH, Muenchen, Germany

Hendrik G. Stunnenberg

Affiliation Nijmegen Centre for Molecular Life Sciences, Radboud University Nijmegen, Nijmegen, The Netherlands

George Reid

Affiliation Institute for Molecular Biology, Mainz, Germany

Neil D. Lawrence

cwamaina.dekut@gmail.com (CwM); n.lawrence@sheffield.ac.uk (NDL); magnus.rattray@manchester.ac.uk (MR)

Affiliation Department of Computer Science, University of Sheffield, Sheffield, United Kingdom

Magnus Rattray

cwamaina.dekut@gmail.com (CwM); n.lawrence@sheffield.ac.uk (NDL); magnus.rattray@manchester.ac.uk (MR)

Affiliation Faculty of Life Sciences, University of Manchester, Manchester, United Kingdom

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: MR NDL HGS AH CwM. Performed the experiments: CwM FM. Analyzed the data: CwM AH MR NDL. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: CwM AH FM KG GR HGS. Wrote the paper: CwM AH GR NDL MR. Algorithm design: CwM AH MR NDL. Software development: CwM.