About the Authors

Tiago R. Magalhães

Affiliation School of Medicine and Medical Science, University College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland

Jillian P. Casey

Affiliations School of Medicine and Medical Science, University College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland, National Children’s Research Centre, Our Lady’s Childrens Hospital Crumlin, Dublin, Ireland

Judith Conroy

Affiliation School of Medicine and Medical Science, University College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland

Regina Regan

Affiliations School of Medicine and Medical Science, University College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland, National Children’s Research Centre, Our Lady’s Childrens Hospital Crumlin, Dublin, Ireland

Darren J. Fitzpatrick

Affiliations School of Medicine and Medical Science, University College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland, Clique Research Cluster, School of Computer Science and Informatics, University College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland

Naisha Shah

Affiliations School of Medicine and Medical Science, University College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland, Complex and Adaptive Systems Laboratory, and Conway Institute of Biomolecular and Biomedical Research, University College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland

João Sobral

Affiliation Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciência, Oeiras, Portugal

Sean Ennis

sean.ennis@ucd.ie

Affiliation School of Medicine and Medical Science, University College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: TRM SE JPC. Performed the experiments: TRM JPC JC DJF. Analyzed the data: TRM JPC JC JS NS. Wrote the paper: TRM SE JPC RR. R package: TRM DJF.