About the Authors

Xiao Han T. Zeng

Affiliation Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois, United States of America

Jordi Duch

Affiliations Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois, United States of America, Department d’Enginyeria Informàtica i Matemàtiques, Universitat Rovira i Virgili, Tarragona, Spain

Marta Sales-Pardo

Affiliations Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois, United States of America, Department d’Enginyeria Química, Universitat Rovira i Virgili, Tarragona, Spain

João A. G. Moreira

Affiliation Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois, United States of America

Filippo Radicchi

Affiliation Center for Complex Networks and Systems Research, School of Informatics and Computing, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana, United States of America

Haroldo V. Ribeiro

Affiliations Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois, United States of America, Departamento Fisica, Universidade Estadual de Maringá, Maringá, Parana, Brazil

Teresa K. Woodruff

Affiliations Department of Obstetrics & Gynecology, Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America, Institute for Women’s Health Research, Northwestern University, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America

Luís A. Nunes Amaral

amaral@northwestern.edu

Affiliations Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois, United States of America, Department of Physics & Astronomy, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois, United States of America, Northwestern Institute on Complex Systems, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceptualization: XHTZ JD MSP FR HVR TKW LANA. Data curation: XHTZ JD MSP Formal analysis: XHTZ JD JAGM. Funding acquisition: JD MSP JAGM FR LANA. Investigation: XHTZ JD MSP. Methodology: XHTZ JD MSP FR HVR TKW LANA. Project administration: TKW LANA Software: XHTZ JD JAGM. Supervision: JD FR TKW LANA. Visualization: XHTZ JAGM. Writing – original draft: XHTZ JD MSP FR HVR TKW LANA. Writing – review & editing: XHTZ JD MSP JAGM FR HVR TKW LANA.