About the Authors

Fausto Lucena

lucena@ohnishi.nagoya-u.ac.jp

Affiliations Biological Information Engineering Laboratory, Nagoya University, Nagoya, Aichi, Japan, Laboratorio para Processamento da Informação Biológica, Universidade Federal do Maranhão, São Luís, Maranhão, Brazil

Allan Kardec Barros

Affiliations Laboratorio para Processamento da Informação Biológica, Universidade Federal do Maranhão, São Luís, Maranhão, Brazil, National Agency of Petroleum, Gas and Biofuels, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

José C. Príncipe

Affiliation Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, United States of America

Noboru Ohnishi

Affiliation Biological Information Engineering Laboratory, Nagoya University, Nagoya, Aichi, Japan

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: FL AKB. Performed the experiments: FL. Analyzed the data: FL AKB JCP NO. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: FL AKB. Wrote the paper: FL. Edited and reviewed the manuscript: AKB JCP NO.