About the Authors

Salvatore Alaimo

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Software, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

salvatore.alaimo@unict.it (SA); alfredo.ferro@unict.it (AF)

Affiliation Bioinformatics Unit, Department of Clinical and Experimental Medicine, University of Catania, Catania, Italy

Rosaria Valentina Rapicavoli

Roles Data curation, Resources, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Bioinformatics Unit, Department of Clinical and Experimental Medicine, University of Catania, Catania, Italy, Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Catania, Catania, Italy

Gioacchino P. Marceca

Roles Resources, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft

Affiliation Bioinformatics Unit, Department of Clinical and Experimental Medicine, University of Catania, Catania, Italy

Alessandro La Ferlita

Roles Data curation, Resources, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft

Affiliations Bioinformatics Unit, Department of Clinical and Experimental Medicine, University of Catania, Catania, Italy, Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Catania, Catania, Italy

Oksana B. Serebrennikova

Roles Resources, Validation, Writing – original draft

Affiliation Molecular Oncology Research Institute, Tufts Medical Center, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Philip N. Tsichlis

Roles Resources, Validation, Writing – original draft

Affiliation Department of Cancer Biology and Genetics and the James Comprehensive Cancer Center, Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, United States of America

Bud Mishra

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Methodology, Validation, Writing – original draft

Affiliation Department of Computer Science, Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, New York University, New York, New York, United States of America

Alfredo Pulvirenti

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Bioinformatics Unit, Department of Clinical and Experimental Medicine, University of Catania, Catania, Italy

Alfredo Ferro

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

salvatore.alaimo@unict.it (SA); alfredo.ferro@unict.it (AF)

Affiliation Bioinformatics Unit, Department of Clinical and Experimental Medicine, University of Catania, Catania, Italy

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.