About the Authors

Daniel M. de Brito

Affiliation Departamento de Informática, Centro de Informática, Universidade Federal da Paraíba, João Pessoa, Brazil

Vinicius Maracaja-Coutinho

Affiliations Centro de Genómica y Bioinformática, Facultad de Ciencias, Universidad Mayor, Santiago, Chile, Departamento de Biologia Molecular, Centro de Ciências Exatas e da Natureza, Universidade Federal da Paraíba, João Pessoa, Brazil, Instituto Vandique, João Pessoa, Brazil, Beagle Bioinformatics, Santiago, Chile

Savio T. de Farias

Affiliation Departamento de Biologia Molecular, Centro de Ciências Exatas e da Natureza, Universidade Federal da Paraíba, João Pessoa, Brazil

Leonardo V. Batista

Affiliation Departamento de Informática, Centro de Informática, Universidade Federal da Paraíba, João Pessoa, Brazil

Thaís G. do Rêgo

gaudenciothais@gmail.com

Affiliation Departamento de Informática, Centro de Informática, Universidade Federal da Paraíba, João Pessoa, Brazil

Competing Interests

The author VMC receives partial salaries from Beagle Bioinformatics. This funder provided support in the form of salaries for author VMC, but did not have any additional role in the study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript. The specific roles of this author are articulated in the “author contributions” section. This does not alter the authors’ adherence to PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: VMC STF LVB TGR DMB. Performed the experiments: DMB. Analyzed the data: DMB VMC STF LVB TGR. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: DMB VMC. Wrote the paper: DMB VMC STF TGR.