About the Authors

Yazdan Asgari

Affiliation Laboratory of Systems Biology and Bioinformatics (LBB), Institute of Biochemistry and Biophysics, University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran

Ali Salehzadeh-Yazdi

Affiliation Laboratory of Systems Biology and Bioinformatics (LBB), Institute of Biochemistry and Biophysics, University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran

Falk Schreiber

schreibe@ipk-gatersleben.de (FS); amasoudin@ibb.ut.ac.ir (AMN)

Affiliations Leibniz Institute of Plant Genetics and Crop Plant Research Gatersleben, Gatersleben, Germany, Institute of Computer Science, Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg, Halle, Germany, Clayton School of Information Technology, Monash University, Clayton, VIC, Australia

Ali Masoudi-Nejad

schreibe@ipk-gatersleben.de (FS); amasoudin@ibb.ut.ac.ir (AMN)

Affiliation Laboratory of Systems Biology and Bioinformatics (LBB), Institute of Biochemistry and Biophysics, University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: AMN YA FS. Performed the experiments: YA ASY. Analyzed the data: YA ASY. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: AMN FS. Wrote the paper: YA AMN ASY.