About the Authors

Fabian Fröhlich

Affiliations Helmholtz Zentrum München - German Research Center for Environmental Health, Institute of Computational Biology, Neuherberg, Germany, Technische Universität München, Center for Mathematics, Chair of Mathematical Modeling of Biological Systems, Garching, Germany

Philipp Thomas

Affiliation Department of Mathematics, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom

Atefeh Kazeroonian

Affiliations Helmholtz Zentrum München - German Research Center for Environmental Health, Institute of Computational Biology, Neuherberg, Germany, Technische Universität München, Center for Mathematics, Chair of Mathematical Modeling of Biological Systems, Garching, Germany

Fabian J. Theis

Affiliations Helmholtz Zentrum München - German Research Center for Environmental Health, Institute of Computational Biology, Neuherberg, Germany, Technische Universität München, Center for Mathematics, Chair of Mathematical Modeling of Biological Systems, Garching, Germany

Ramon Grima

ramon.grima@ed.ac.uk (RG); jan.hasenauer@helmholtz-muenchen.de (JH)

Affiliation School of Biological Sciences, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, United Kingdom

Jan Hasenauer

ramon.grima@ed.ac.uk (RG); jan.hasenauer@helmholtz-muenchen.de (JH)

Affiliations Helmholtz Zentrum München - German Research Center for Environmental Health, Institute of Computational Biology, Neuherberg, Germany, Technische Universität München, Center for Mathematics, Chair of Mathematical Modeling of Biological Systems, Garching, Germany

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: FF PT FJT RG JH. Performed the experiments: FF. Analyzed the data: FF PT RG JH. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: FF PT AK JH. Wrote the paper: FF PT RG JH.