About the Authors

Adrienne H. K. Roeder

Contributed equally to this work with: Adrienne H. K. Roeder, Vijay Chickarmane

Affiliations Division of Biology, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California, United States of America, Center for Integrative Study of Cell Regulation, California Institute Technology, Pasadena, California, United States of America

Vijay Chickarmane

Contributed equally to this work with: Adrienne H. K. Roeder, Vijay Chickarmane

Affiliation Division of Biology, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California, United States of America

Alexandre Cunha

Affiliations Center for Integrative Study of Cell Regulation, California Institute Technology, Pasadena, California, United States of America, Center for Advanced Computing Research, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California, United States of America

Boguslaw Obara

Current address: Oxford e-Research Centre and Oxford Centre for Integrative Systems Biology, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom

Affiliation Center for Bio-Image Informatics, Electrical and Computer Engineering Department, University of California, Santa Barbara, California, United States of America

B. S. Manjunath

Affiliation Center for Bio-Image Informatics, Electrical and Computer Engineering Department, University of California, Santa Barbara, California, United States of America

Elliot M. Meyerowitz

meyerow@its.caltech.edu

Affiliation Division of Biology, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

The author(s) have made the following declarations about their contributions: Conceived and designed the experiments: AHKR EMM. Performed the experiments: AHKR. Analyzed the data: AHKR AC BO BSM. Wrote the paper: AHKR VC EMM. Conceived and designed model: AHKR VC EMM. Programmed the computational models: VC. Image processing: AC BO BSM.