About the Authors

Sofie Van Landeghem

Contributed equally to this work with: Sofie Van Landeghem, Jari Björne

Affiliations Department of Plant Systems Biology, VIB, Gent, Belgium, Department of Plant Biotechnology and Bioinformatics, Ghent University, Gent, Belgium

Jari Björne

Contributed equally to this work with: Sofie Van Landeghem, Jari Björne

Affiliations Turku Centre for Computer Science, Turku, Finland, Department of Information Technology, University of Turku, Finland

Chih-Hsuan Wei

Affiliations National Center for Biotechnology Information, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America, Department of Computer Science and Information Engineering, National Cheng Kung University, Tainan, Taiwan

Kai Hakala

Affiliation Department of Information Technology, University of Turku, Finland

Sampo Pyysalo

Affiliation National Centre for Text Mining, School of Computer Science, University of Manchester, Manchester, United Kingdom

Sophia Ananiadou

Affiliation National Centre for Text Mining, School of Computer Science, University of Manchester, Manchester, United Kingdom

Hung-Yu Kao

Affiliation Department of Computer Science and Information Engineering, National Cheng Kung University, Tainan, Taiwan

Zhiyong Lu

Affiliation National Center for Biotechnology Information, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Tapio Salakoski

Affiliations Turku Centre for Computer Science, Turku, Finland, Department of Information Technology, University of Turku, Finland

Yves Van de Peer

Affiliations Department of Plant Systems Biology, VIB, Gent, Belgium, Department of Plant Biotechnology and Bioinformatics, Ghent University, Gent, Belgium

Filip Ginter

ginter@cs.utu.fi

Affiliation Department of Information Technology, University of Turku, Finland

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: SVL JB SP SA HYK ZL TS YVdP FG. Performed the experiments: SVL JB CHW KH FG. Analyzed the data: SVL JB CHW SP YVdP FG. Wrote the paper: SVL JB SP FG.