About the Authors

Q. Tri Ho

Affiliation BIOSYST-MeBioS, Faculty of Bioscience Engineering, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Leuven, Belgium

Pieter Verboven

Affiliation BIOSYST-MeBioS, Faculty of Bioscience Engineering, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Leuven, Belgium

Bert E. Verlinden

Affiliation BIOSYST-MeBioS, Faculty of Bioscience Engineering, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Leuven, Belgium

Jeroen Lammertyn

Affiliation BIOSYST-MeBioS, Faculty of Bioscience Engineering, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Leuven, Belgium

Stefan Vandewalle

Affiliation Scientific Computing Research Group, Computer Science Department, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Leuven, Belgium

Bart M. Nicolaï

bart.nicolai@biw.kuleuven.be

Affiliation BIOSYST-MeBioS, Faculty of Bioscience Engineering, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Leuven, Belgium

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: BMN QTH PV BEV JL SV. Performed the experiments: QTH BEV JL. Analyzed the data: QTH PV. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: QTH SV. Wrote the paper: BMN QTH PV.