About the Authors

Nikos Vlassis

Contributed equally to this work with: Nikos Vlassis, Maria Pires Pacheco

nikos.vlassis@uni.lu

Affiliation Luxembourg Centre for Systems Biomedicine, University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg City, Luxembourg

Maria Pires Pacheco

Contributed equally to this work with: Nikos Vlassis, Maria Pires Pacheco

Affiliation Life Sciences Research Unit, University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg City, Luxembourg

Thomas Sauter

Affiliation Life Sciences Research Unit, University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg City, Luxembourg

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Developed the mathematical models and algorithms: NV. Wrote the Introduction and Methods sections: NV. Carried out the experiments: MPP. Wrote the Related work section and Text S1: MPP. Suggested the problem and initiated the research: TS. Contributed in the methodological and experimental parts of the paper: TS. Contributed in the development of the Software: NV MPP TS. Contributed to the writing of the remaining sections of the paper: NV MPP TS.