About the Authors

Yuri K. Shestopaloff

shes169@yahoo.ca

Affiliation Research and Development Lab, Segmentsoft Inc., Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Ivo F. Sbalzarini

Affiliation MOSAIC Group, Center of Systems Biology Dresden (CSBD), Max Planck Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics, Dresden, Germany

Competing Interests

There are no competing interests. Although one of authors, Yuri Shestopaloff, works in a commercial company Segmentsoft Inc. as a Director of Research & Development Lab, as you correctly noted, the study has nothing to do with the business activity of the company. This study is an entirely personal undertaking conducted in a spare time. The situation allows me taking unpaid breaks in order to do these studies and visiting other organizations. In particular, part of this study was done at Max Planck Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics, where I stayed as an invited Visiting Professor (without being paid as well). The topic of the study was not included into any official Institute's research plans, and no funds were allocated for it. So that formally it can be considered as a self-initiated research with no funding. This does not alter our adherence to PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.

Author Contributions

Analyzed the data: YS. Wrote the paper: YS. Editing manuscript: YS IS. Conceiving the idea to study liver growth: YS IS. Designed software used in analysis: YS. Discussions of the results and material: YS IS.