About the Authors

Veljo Kisand

Affiliations University of Tartu, Institute of Technology, Tartu, Estonia, European Commission - Joint Research Centre, Institute for Environment and Sustainability, Ispra (VA), Italy

Angelica Valente

Current address: FAME Laboratory, Centre for Research and Technology Thessaly, Trikala, Greece

Affiliation European Commission - Joint Research Centre, Institute for Environment and Sustainability, Ispra (VA), Italy

Armin Lahm

Affiliation Bioinformatics Project Support, Roma, Italy

Gerard Tanet

Affiliation European Commission - Joint Research Centre, Institute for Environment and Sustainability, Ispra (VA), Italy

Teresa Lettieri

teresa.lettieri@jrc.ec.europa.eu

Affiliation European Commission - Joint Research Centre, Institute for Environment and Sustainability, Ispra (VA), Italy

Competing Interests

AL is owner of the company Bioinformatics Project Support, a bioinformatic consultancy company. This does not alter the authors’ adherence to all the PLoS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: TL. Performed the experiments: AV VK GT. Analyzed the data: VK AL. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: AV VK AL GT. Wrote the paper: VK AL TL.