About the Authors

Grazia Visci

Contributed equally to this work with: Grazia Visci, Doron Tolomeo

Roles Investigation, Methodology, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Biosciences, Biotechnology and Environment, University of Bari Aldo Moro, Bari, Italy

Doron Tolomeo

Contributed equally to this work with: Grazia Visci, Doron Tolomeo

Roles Investigation, Methodology, Supervision, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Biosciences, Biotechnology and Environment, University of Bari Aldo Moro, Bari, Italy

Angelo Lonoce

Roles Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Biosciences, Biotechnology and Environment, University of Bari Aldo Moro, Bari, Italy

Aram Arshadi

Roles Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Biosciences, Biotechnology and Environment, University of Bari Aldo Moro, Bari, Italy

Lorenzo Bascetta

Roles Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Tethis S.p.a., Milan, Italy

Gianluca Trotta

Roles Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Institute of Intelligent Industrial Technologies and Systems for Advanced Manufacturing, Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, Bari, Italy

Margot van Riel

Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Human Genetics, KU Leuven, Leuven, Belgium

Joris Robert Vermeesch

Roles Methodology, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Human Genetics, KU Leuven, Leuven, Belgium

Roberta Carbone

Roles Conceptualization, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

cleliatiziana.storlazzi@uniba.it (CTS); roberta.carbone@tethis-lab.com (RC)

Affiliation Tethis S.p.a., Milan, Italy

Clelia Tiziana Storlazzi

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

cleliatiziana.storlazzi@uniba.it (CTS); roberta.carbone@tethis-lab.com (RC)

Affiliation Department of Biosciences, Biotechnology and Environment, University of Bari Aldo Moro, Bari, Italy

Competing Interests

I have read the journal’s policy and the authors of this manuscript have the following competing interests: R. C. is a shareholder of Tethis S.p.a. The remaining authors have no conflict of interest to disclose. This does not alter our adherence to PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.