About the Authors

Shweta Bansal

Affiliation Computational and Applied Mathematics, University of Texas Austin, Austin, Texas, United States of America

Babak Pourbohloul

Affiliation UBC Centre for Disease Control, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Lauren Ancel Meyers

To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail: laurenmeyers@mail.utexas.edu

Affiliations Section of Integrative Biology and Institute for Cellular and Molecular Biology, University of Texas Austin, Austin, Texas, United States of America , External Faculty, Santa Fe Institute, Santa Fe, New Mexico, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

All three authors contributed to the design, analysis, and presentation of this work.