About the Authors

Han Liang

Affiliation Department of Ecology and Evolution, University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America

Kristina Rogale Plazonic

Affiliation Program in Applied and Computational Mathematics, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey, United States of America

Jianping Chen

Affiliation Program in Applied Physics, Rice University, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Wen-Hsiung Li

To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail: whli@uchicago.edu (WHL); arifer@rice.edu (AF)

Affiliation Department of Ecology and Evolution, University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America

Ariel Fernández

To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail: whli@uchicago.edu (WHL); arifer@rice.edu (AF)

Affiliations Department of Bioengineering, Rice University, Houston, Texas, United States of America , Department of Computer Science, University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

HL, W-HL, and AF designed the research. HL, KRP, JC, and AF performed the research. HL, W-HL, and AF wrote the paper.