About the Authors

Edoardo Pasolli

Affiliation Centre for Integrative Biology, University of Trento, Trento, Italy

Duy Tin Truong

Affiliation Centre for Integrative Biology, University of Trento, Trento, Italy

Faizan Malik

Affiliation Graduate School of Public Health and Health Policy, City University of New York, New York, New York, United States of America

Levi Waldron

Affiliation Graduate School of Public Health and Health Policy, City University of New York, New York, New York, United States of America

Nicola Segata

nicola.segata@unitn.it

Affiliation Centre for Integrative Biology, University of Trento, Trento, Italy

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: EP NS. Performed the experiments: EP DTT NS. Analyzed the data: EP DTT FM LW NS. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: EP DTT LW NS. Wrote the paper: EP LW NS. Implemented and tested the software: EP.