About the Authors

Francesca Cordero

Contributed equally to this work with: Francesca Cordero, Marco Beccuti

Affiliations Department of Computer Sciences, University di Torino, Torino, Italy, Molecular Biotechnology Center, University of Torino, Torino, Italy

Marco Beccuti

Contributed equally to this work with: Francesca Cordero, Marco Beccuti

Affiliation Molecular Biotechnology Center, University of Torino, Torino, Italy

Maddalena Arigoni

Affiliation Department of Computer Sciences, University di Torino, Torino, Italy

Susanna Donatelli

Affiliation Molecular Biotechnology Center, University of Torino, Torino, Italy

Raffaele A. Calogero

raffaele.calogero@unito.it

Affiliation Department of Computer Sciences, University di Torino, Torino, Italy

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: SD RAC. Performed the experiments: MA. Analyzed the data: FC MB. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: MA. Wrote the paper: RAC SD FC MB MA. Did the methods comparisons: FC MB. Prepared the benchmark data sets: MA. Supervised the overall work: RAC SD.