About the Authors

Matteo Accetturo

Contributed equally to this work with: Matteo Accetturo, Teresa M. Creanza, Claudia Santoro

Affiliation GBS BAO Advanced Analytics Services and MBLab, IBM, Bari, Italy

Teresa M. Creanza

Contributed equally to this work with: Matteo Accetturo, Teresa M. Creanza, Claudia Santoro

Affiliation GBS BAO Advanced Analytics Services and MBLab, IBM, Bari, Italy

Claudia Santoro

Contributed equally to this work with: Matteo Accetturo, Teresa M. Creanza, Claudia Santoro

Affiliation GBS BAO Advanced Analytics Services and MBLab, IBM, Bari, Italy

Giancarlo Tria

Affiliation GBS BAO Advanced Analytics Services and MBLab, IBM, Bari, Italy

Antonio Giordano

Affiliation GBS BAO Advanced Analytics Services and MBLab, IBM, Bari, Italy

Simone Battagliero

Affiliation GBS BAO Advanced Analytics Services and MBLab, IBM, Bari, Italy

Antonella Vaccina

Affiliation GBS BAO Advanced Analytics Services and MBLab, IBM, Bari, Italy

Gaetano Scioscia

Affiliation GBS BAO Advanced Analytics Services and MBLab, IBM, Bari, Italy

Pietro Leo

pietro_leo@it.ibm.com

Affiliation GBS BAO Advanced Analytics Services and MBLab, IBM, Bari, Italy

Competing Interests

The authors are employed with IBM Italy SpA. They serve as investigators for the research and educational project DM19410 “Laboratorio di Bioinformatica per la Biodiversita' Molecolare” MBLab. The authors confirm their adherence to all the PLoS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: MA TMC CS GS PL. Performed the experiments: MA TMC CS. Analyzed the data: MA TMC CS AV GS. Wrote the paper: MA TMC CS. Implemented the mathematical model used for gene prioritization: SB.