About the Authors

Lieven P. C. Verbeke

lieven.verbeke@intec.ugent.be (LPCV); jan.fostier@intec.ugent.be (JF); kathleen.marchal@intec.ugent.be (KM)

Affiliation Department of Information Technology, Ghent University—iMinds, Ghent, Belgium

Jimmy Van den Eynden

Affiliations Department of Information Technology, Ghent University—iMinds, Ghent, Belgium, Department of Plant Biotechnology and Bioinformatics, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium

Ana Carolina Fierro

Affiliations Department of Information Technology, Ghent University—iMinds, Ghent, Belgium, Department of Plant Biotechnology and Bioinformatics, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium

Piet Demeester

Affiliation Department of Information Technology, Ghent University—iMinds, Ghent, Belgium

Jan Fostier

lieven.verbeke@intec.ugent.be (LPCV); jan.fostier@intec.ugent.be (JF); kathleen.marchal@intec.ugent.be (KM)

‡ These authors are joint last authors on this work.

Affiliation Department of Information Technology, Ghent University—iMinds, Ghent, Belgium

Kathleen Marchal

lieven.verbeke@intec.ugent.be (LPCV); jan.fostier@intec.ugent.be (JF); kathleen.marchal@intec.ugent.be (KM)

‡ These authors are joint last authors on this work.

Affiliations Department of Information Technology, Ghent University—iMinds, Ghent, Belgium, Department of Plant Biotechnology and Bioinformatics, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: LPCV KM JF. Performed the experiments: LPCV. Analyzed the data: LPCV JVDE ACF. Wrote the paper: LPCV JVDE ACF PD JF KM. Designed the software used in analysis: LPCV PD JF. Prepared the datasets used in this study: JVDE ACF.