About the Authors

Saeed Ataei

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

Affiliations Diagnostic Laboratory Sciences and Technology Research Center, School of Paramedical Sciences, Shiraz University of Medical Sciences, Shiraz, Iran, Department of Medical Biotechnology, School of Paramedical Sciences, Shiraz University of Medical Sciences, Shiraz, Iran

Mohammad Naser Taheri

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

tamadon@sums.ac.ir (GT); taheri_mn@sums.ac.ir (MNT)

Affiliations Diagnostic Laboratory Sciences and Technology Research Center, School of Paramedical Sciences, Shiraz University of Medical Sciences, Shiraz, Iran, Department of Medical Biotechnology, School of Paramedical Sciences, Shiraz University of Medical Sciences, Shiraz, Iran, Bioinformatics and Computational Biology Research Center, Shiraz University of Medical Sciences, Shiraz, Iran

Gholamhossein Tamaddon

Roles Funding acquisition, Resources, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

tamadon@sums.ac.ir (GT); taheri_mn@sums.ac.ir (MNT)

Affiliations Diagnostic Laboratory Sciences and Technology Research Center, School of Paramedical Sciences, Shiraz University of Medical Sciences, Shiraz, Iran, Department of Medical Biotechnology, School of Paramedical Sciences, Shiraz University of Medical Sciences, Shiraz, Iran

Abbas Behzad-Behbahani

Roles Resources

Affiliations Diagnostic Laboratory Sciences and Technology Research Center, School of Paramedical Sciences, Shiraz University of Medical Sciences, Shiraz, Iran, Department of Medical Biotechnology, School of Paramedical Sciences, Shiraz University of Medical Sciences, Shiraz, Iran

Fatemeh Taheri

Roles Formal analysis, Software

Affiliation Department of Mechanical Engineering, McGill University, Montreal, Canada

Amir Rahimi

Roles Resources

Affiliations Bioinformatics and Computational Biology Research Center, Shiraz University of Medical Sciences, Shiraz, Iran, Department of Molecular Medicine, School of Advanced Medical Sciences and Technologies, Shiraz University of Medical Sciences, Shiraz, Iran

Farahnaz Zare

Roles Investigation

Affiliations Diagnostic Laboratory Sciences and Technology Research Center, School of Paramedical Sciences, Shiraz University of Medical Sciences, Shiraz, Iran, Department of Medical Biotechnology, School of Paramedical Sciences, Shiraz University of Medical Sciences, Shiraz, Iran

Niloofar Amirian

Roles Visualization

Affiliation Diagnostic Laboratory Sciences and Technology Research Center, School of Paramedical Sciences, Shiraz University of Medical Sciences, Shiraz, Iran

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.