About the Authors

Lefteris Koumakis

koumakis@ics.forth.gr

Affiliation Computational BioMedicine Laboratory (CBML), Institute of Computers Science (ICS), Foundation for Research and Technology-Hellas (FORTH), Heraklion, Crete, Greece

Alexandros Kanterakis

Affiliation Computational BioMedicine Laboratory (CBML), Institute of Computers Science (ICS), Foundation for Research and Technology-Hellas (FORTH), Heraklion, Crete, Greece

Evgenia Kartsaki

Affiliation Computational BioMedicine Laboratory (CBML), Institute of Computers Science (ICS), Foundation for Research and Technology-Hellas (FORTH), Heraklion, Crete, Greece

Maria Chatzimina

Affiliation Computational BioMedicine Laboratory (CBML), Institute of Computers Science (ICS), Foundation for Research and Technology-Hellas (FORTH), Heraklion, Crete, Greece

Michalis Zervakis

Affiliation School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Technical University of Crete, Greece

Manolis Tsiknakis

Affiliations Computational BioMedicine Laboratory (CBML), Institute of Computers Science (ICS), Foundation for Research and Technology-Hellas (FORTH), Heraklion, Crete, Greece, Department of Informatics Engineering, Technological Educational Institute of Crete, Greece

Despoina Vassou

Affiliation Institute of Molecular Biology & Biotechnology, FORTH, Heraklion, Crete, Greece

Dimitris Kafetzopoulos

Affiliation Institute of Molecular Biology & Biotechnology, FORTH, Heraklion, Crete, Greece

Kostas Marias

Affiliation Computational BioMedicine Laboratory (CBML), Institute of Computers Science (ICS), Foundation for Research and Technology-Hellas (FORTH), Heraklion, Crete, Greece

Vassilis Moustakis

Affiliation School of Production Engineering & Management, Technical University of Crete, Greece

George Potamias

Affiliation Computational BioMedicine Laboratory (CBML), Institute of Computers Science (ICS), Foundation for Research and Technology-Hellas (FORTH), Heraklion, Crete, Greece

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceptualization: LK GP. Data curation: LK. Formal analysis: LK AK MZ VM GP. Funding acquisition: MT KM VM GP. Investigation: LK AK EK MC DK DV. Methodology: LK AK GP. Project administration: GP. Resources: MT KM VM GP. Software: LK MC. Supervision: MZ DK VM GP. Validation: LK AK EK MZ DV DK VM GP. Visualization: LK. Writing – original draft: LK. Writing – review & editing: LK AK MZ MT DV DK VM GP.