About the Authors

Cristian Del Fabbro

Contributed equally to this work with: Cristian Del Fabbro, Simone Scalabrin

Affiliation Institute of Applied Genomics, Udine, Italy

Simone Scalabrin

Contributed equally to this work with: Cristian Del Fabbro, Simone Scalabrin

Affiliation IGA Technology Services, Udine, Italy

Michele Morgante

Affiliation Institute of Applied Genomics, Udine, Italy

Federico M. Giorgi

fmg2117@columbia.edu

Affiliations Institute of Applied Genomics, Udine, Italy, Center for Computational Biology and Bioinformatics, Columbia University, New York, New York, United States of America

Competing Interests

Dr. Simone Scalabrin, one of the authors of the manuscript, is currently affiliated with IGA Technology Services, which financially supports the study. This does not alter the authors' adherence to all PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: FMG. Performed the experiments: CDF SS FMG. Analyzed the data: CDF SS MM FMG. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: CDF SS. Wrote the manuscript: FMG.