About the Authors

Riccardo Velasco

Contributed equally to this work with: Riccardo Velasco, Andrey Zharkikh, Michela Troggio

To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail: riccardo.velasco@iasma.it

Affiliation IASMA Research Center, San Michele all'Adige, Trento, Italy

Andrey Zharkikh

Contributed equally to this work with: Riccardo Velasco, Andrey Zharkikh, Michela Troggio

Affiliation Myriad Genetics Inc, Salt Lake City, Utah, United States of America

Michela Troggio

Contributed equally to this work with: Riccardo Velasco, Andrey Zharkikh, Michela Troggio

Affiliation IASMA Research Center, San Michele all'Adige, Trento, Italy

Dustin A. Cartwright

Affiliations IASMA Research Center, San Michele all'Adige, Trento, Italy, Myriad Genetics Inc, Salt Lake City, Utah, United States of America

Alessandro Cestaro

Affiliation IASMA Research Center, San Michele all'Adige, Trento, Italy

Dmitry Pruss

Affiliation Myriad Genetics Inc, Salt Lake City, Utah, United States of America

Massimo Pindo

Affiliation IASMA Research Center, San Michele all'Adige, Trento, Italy

Lisa M. FitzGerald

Affiliation Myriad Genetics Inc, Salt Lake City, Utah, United States of America

Silvia Vezzulli

Affiliation IASMA Research Center, San Michele all'Adige, Trento, Italy

Julia Reid

Affiliation Myriad Genetics Inc, Salt Lake City, Utah, United States of America

Giulia Malacarne

Affiliation IASMA Research Center, San Michele all'Adige, Trento, Italy

Diana Iliev

Affiliation Myriad Genetics Inc, Salt Lake City, Utah, United States of America

Giuseppina Coppola

Affiliation IASMA Research Center, San Michele all'Adige, Trento, Italy

Bryan Wardell

Affiliation Myriad Genetics Inc, Salt Lake City, Utah, United States of America

Diego Micheletti

Affiliation IASMA Research Center, San Michele all'Adige, Trento, Italy

Teresita Macalma

Affiliation Myriad Genetics Inc, Salt Lake City, Utah, United States of America

Marco Facci

Affiliation IASMA Research Center, San Michele all'Adige, Trento, Italy

Jeff T. Mitchell

Affiliation Myriad Genetics Inc, Salt Lake City, Utah, United States of America

Michele Perazzolli

Affiliation IASMA Research Center, San Michele all'Adige, Trento, Italy

Glenn Eldredge

Affiliation Myriad Genetics Inc, Salt Lake City, Utah, United States of America

Pamela Gatto

Affiliation IASMA Research Center, San Michele all'Adige, Trento, Italy

Rozan Oyzerski

Affiliation Myriad Genetics Inc, Salt Lake City, Utah, United States of America

Marco Moretto

Affiliation IASMA Research Center, San Michele all'Adige, Trento, Italy

Natalia Gutin

Affiliation Myriad Genetics Inc, Salt Lake City, Utah, United States of America

Marco Stefanini

Affiliation IASMA Research Center, San Michele all'Adige, Trento, Italy

Yang Chen

Affiliation Myriad Genetics Inc, Salt Lake City, Utah, United States of America

Cinzia Segala

Affiliation IASMA Research Center, San Michele all'Adige, Trento, Italy

Christine Davenport

Affiliation Myriad Genetics Inc, Salt Lake City, Utah, United States of America

Lorenzo Demattè

Affiliation IASMA Research Center, San Michele all'Adige, Trento, Italy

Amy Mraz

Affiliation Amplicon Express Inc., Pullman, Washington, United States of America

Juri Battilana

Affiliation IASMA Research Center, San Michele all'Adige, Trento, Italy

Keith Stormo

Affiliation Amplicon Express Inc., Pullman, Washington, United States of America

Fabrizio Costa

Affiliation IASMA Research Center, San Michele all'Adige, Trento, Italy

Quanzhou Tao

Affiliation Amplicon Express Inc., Pullman, Washington, United States of America

Azeddine Si-Ammour

Affiliation IASMA Research Center, San Michele all'Adige, Trento, Italy

Tim Harkins

Affiliation Roche Diagnostics Corporation, Roche Applied Science, Indianapolis, Indiana, United States of America

Angie Lackey

Affiliation Roche Diagnostics Corporation, Roche Applied Science, Indianapolis, Indiana, United States of America

Clotilde Perbost

Affiliation 454 Life Sciences Corporation, Branford, Connecticut, United States of America

Bruce Taillon

Affiliation 454 Life Sciences Corporation, Branford, Connecticut, United States of America

Alessandra Stella

Affiliation Technology Park Lodi, Lodi, Italy

Victor Solovyev

Affiliation Department of Computer Science, Royal Holloway, University of London, Egham, Surrey, United Kingdom

Jeffrey A. Fawcett

Affiliation Department of Plant Systems Biology, VIB, Gent University, Gent, Belgium

Lieven Sterck

Affiliation Department of Plant Systems Biology, VIB, Gent University, Gent, Belgium

Klaas Vandepoele

Affiliation Department of Plant Systems Biology, VIB, Gent University, Gent, Belgium

Stella M. Grando

Affiliation IASMA Research Center, San Michele all'Adige, Trento, Italy

Stefano Toppo

Affiliation Department of Biological Chemistry, Padova University, Padova, Italy

Claudio Moser

Affiliation IASMA Research Center, San Michele all'Adige, Trento, Italy

Jerry Lanchbury

Affiliation Myriad Genetics Inc, Salt Lake City, Utah, United States of America

Robert Bogden

Affiliation Amplicon Express Inc., Pullman, Washington, United States of America

Mark Skolnick

Affiliation Myriad Genetics Inc, Salt Lake City, Utah, United States of America

Vittorio Sgaramella

Affiliation Technology Park Lodi, Lodi, Italy

Satish K. Bhatnagar

Affiliation Myriad Genetics Inc, Salt Lake City, Utah, United States of America

Paolo Fontana

Affiliation IASMA Research Center, San Michele all'Adige, Trento, Italy

Alexander Gutin

Affiliation Myriad Genetics Inc, Salt Lake City, Utah, United States of America

Yves Van de Peer

Affiliation Department of Plant Systems Biology, VIB, Gent University, Gent, Belgium

Francesco Salamini

Affiliation Technology Park Lodi, Lodi, Italy

Roberto Viola

Affiliation IASMA Research Center, San Michele all'Adige, Trento, Italy

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

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