About the Authors

Michela Riz

Affiliation Department of Information Engineering, University of Padua, Padua, Italy

Matthias Braun

† Deceased.

Affiliation Alberta Diabetes Institute, Department of Pharmacology, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada

Morten Gram Pedersen

pedersen@dei.unipd.it

Affiliation Department of Information Engineering, University of Padua, Padua, Italy

Competing Interests

I have read the journal's policy and have the following conflicts: The work in Padua was partially supported by a research grant from Sanofi.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: MR MB MGP. Performed the experiments: MR MB MGP. Analyzed the data: MR MB MGP. Wrote the paper: MGP. Wrote the computer code: MR MGP. Revised manuscript: MR MB MGP. Approved final version of manuscript: MR MB MGP.