About the Authors

Valerio Ferrario

Affiliation Laboratory of Applied and Computational Biocatalysis, Dipartimento di Scienze Chimiche e Farmaceutiche, Università degli Studi di Trieste, Trieste (TS), Italy

Lydia Siragusa

Affiliation Laboratory for Chemometrics and Molecular Modeling, Dipartimento di Chimica, Biologia e Biotecnologie, Università degli Studi di Perugia, Perugia (PG), Italy

Cynthia Ebert

Affiliation Laboratory of Applied and Computational Biocatalysis, Dipartimento di Scienze Chimiche e Farmaceutiche, Università degli Studi di Trieste, Trieste (TS), Italy

Massimo Baroni

Affiliation Molecular Discovery Limited, Middlesex, London, United Kingdom

Marco Foscato

Affiliation Laboratory of Applied and Computational Biocatalysis, Dipartimento di Scienze Chimiche e Farmaceutiche, Università degli Studi di Trieste, Trieste (TS), Italy

Gabriele Cruciani

Affiliation Laboratory for Chemometrics and Molecular Modeling, Dipartimento di Chimica, Biologia e Biotecnologie, Università degli Studi di Perugia, Perugia (PG), Italy

Lucia Gardossi

gardossi@units.it

Affiliation Laboratory of Applied and Computational Biocatalysis, Dipartimento di Scienze Chimiche e Farmaceutiche, Università degli Studi di Trieste, Trieste (TS), Italy

Competing Interests

MB is an employee of Molecular Discovery Ltd. There are no patents or products in development to declare. This does not alter the authors’ adherence to all the PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials, as detailed online in the guide for authors.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: VF LG LS GC CE. Performed the experiments: VF LS MF. Analyzed the data: VF LS LG GC CE. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: MB LS VF GC. Contributed to the writing of the manuscript: LG VF LS GC. Designed BioGPS software: MB GC.