About the Authors

Rita Vignani

Contributed equally to this work with: Rita Vignani, Pietro Liò

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft

rita.vignani@unisi.it

Affiliations Department of Life Science, University of Siena, Siena, Italy, Serge-genomics, Siena, Italy

Pietro Liò

Contributed equally to this work with: Rita Vignani, Pietro Liò

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Software, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Computer Laboratory, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom

Monica Scali

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Life Science, University of Siena, Siena, Italy

Competing Interests

The Serge-Genomics did not provide any financial support in the form of authors’ salaries. We confirm that this commercial affiliation does not alter our adherence to PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.