About the Authors

Alex Shlemov

Roles Formal analysis, Software, Visualization

Affiliation Laboratory for Algorithmic Biology, St. Petersburg State University, St. Petersburg, Russia

Theodore Alexandrov

Roles Formal analysis, Software, Visualization

Affiliations Structural and Computational Biology Unit, European Molecular Biology Laboratory, Heidelberg, Germany, Skaggs School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, California, United States of America

Nina Golyandina

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Methodology, Visualization, Writing – original draft

Affiliation Faculty of Mathematics and Mechanics, St. Petersburg State University, St. Petersburg, Russia

David Holloway

Roles Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Mathematics Department, British Columbia Institute of Technology, Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada

Stefan Baumgartner

Roles Data curation, Funding acquisition, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Department of Experimental Medical Sciences, Lund University, Lund, Sweden, Department of Biology, University of Konstanz, Konstanz, Germany

Alexander V. Spirov

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – original draft

alexander.spirov@gmail.com

Affiliations Computer Science and CEWIT, SUNY Stony Brook, Stony Brook, New York, United States of America, Lab Modelling Evolution, The I.M. Sechenov Institute of Evolutionary Physiology & Biochemistry, St. Petersburg, Russia

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.