About the Authors

Flavia A. M. Maggiolini

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

Affiliation Dipartimento di Biologia, Università degli Studi di Bari “Aldo Moro”, Bari, Italy

Stuart Cantsilieris

Roles Validation, Visualization

Affiliation Department of Genome Sciences, University of Washington School of Medicine, Seattle, WA, United States of America

Pietro D’Addabbo

Roles Validation, Visualization

Affiliation Dipartimento di Biologia, Università degli Studi di Bari “Aldo Moro”, Bari, Italy

Michele Manganelli

Roles Validation

Affiliation Dipartimento di Biologia, Università degli Studi di Bari “Aldo Moro”, Bari, Italy

Bradley P. Coe

Roles Validation, Visualization

Affiliation Department of Genome Sciences, University of Washington School of Medicine, Seattle, WA, United States of America

Beth L. Dumont

Roles Investigation

Affiliation The Jackson Laboratory, Bar Harbor, ME, United States of America

Ashley D. Sanders

Roles Investigation, Visualization

Affiliation European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL), Genome Biology Unit, Meyerhofstraße 1, Heidelberg, Germany

Andy Wing Chun Pang

Roles Investigation, Visualization

Affiliation Bionano Genomics, San Diego, CA, United States of America

Mitchell R. Vollger

Roles Investigation, Visualization

Affiliation Department of Genome Sciences, University of Washington School of Medicine, Seattle, WA, United States of America

Orazio Palumbo

Roles Resources

Affiliation Medical Genetics Unit, IRCCS Casa Sollievo della Sofferenza, San Giovanni Rotondo (FG), Italy

Pietro Palumbo

Roles Resources

Affiliation Medical Genetics Unit, IRCCS Casa Sollievo della Sofferenza, San Giovanni Rotondo (FG), Italy

Maria Accadia

Roles Resources

Affiliation Medical Genetics Service, Hospital “Cardinale G. Panico”, Via San Pio X n°4, Tricase, LE, Italy

Massimo Carella

Roles Resources

Affiliation Medical Genetics Unit, IRCCS Casa Sollievo della Sofferenza, San Giovanni Rotondo (FG), Italy

Evan E. Eichler

Roles Funding acquisition, Investigation, Resources

Affiliations Department of Genome Sciences, University of Washington School of Medicine, Seattle, WA, United States of America, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, United States of America

Francesca Antonacci

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Project administration, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

francesca.antonacci@uniba.it

Affiliation Dipartimento di Biologia, Università degli Studi di Bari “Aldo Moro”, Bari, Italy

Competing Interests

I have read the journal's policy and the authors of this manuscript have the following competing interests: EEE is on the scientific advisory board (SAB) of DNAnexus, Inc.