About the Authors

Ildefonso M. De la Fuente

mtpmadei@ehu.es

Affiliations Quantitative Biomedicine Unit, BioCruces Health Research Institute, Barakaldo, Basque Country, Spain, Institute of Parasitology and Biomedicine “López Neyra”, CSIC, Granada, Spain, Department of Mathematics, University of the Basque Country, EHU-UPV, Leioa, Basque Country, Spain

Jesus M. Cortes

Affiliations Quantitative Biomedicine Unit, BioCruces Health Research Institute, Barakaldo, Basque Country, Spain, Ikerbasque: The Basque Foundation for Science, Bilbao, Basque Country, Spain

David A. Pelta

Affiliation Department of Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence, University of Granada, Granada, Spain

Juan Veguillas

Affiliation Quantitative Biomedicine Unit, BioCruces Health Research Institute, Barakaldo, Basque Country, Spain

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Performed the genetic algorithm for the discrete optimization: DAP. Supervised the research: IMDF JMC JV. Developed the computational model: IMDF. Conceived and designed the experiments: IMDF. Performed the experiments: IMDF JMC. Analyzed the data: IMDF JMC. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: IMDF JMC. Wrote the paper: IMDF JMC.