About the Authors

Yevgeniy Plavskin

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Software, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Center for Genomics and Systems Biology, New York University, New York, New York, United States of America, Department of Biology, New York University, New York, New York, United States of America

Maria Stella de Biase

Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Berlin Institute for Medical Systems Biology, Max Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine in the Helmholtz Association, Berlin, Germany, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Department of Biology, Berlin, Germany

Naomi Ziv

Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Current address: Shmunis School of Biomedical and Cancer Research, Tel Aviv University, Ramat Aviv, Israel

Affiliations Center for Genomics and Systems Biology, New York University, New York, New York, United States of America, Department of Biology, New York University, New York, New York, United States of America

Libuše Janská

Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Center for Genomics and Systems Biology, New York University, New York, New York, United States of America, Department of Biology, New York University, New York, New York, United States of America

Yuan O. Zhu

Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Department of Genetics, Stanford University, Stanford, California, United States of America, Department of Biology, Stanford University, Stanford, California, United States of America

David W. Hall

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Genetics, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia, United States of America

Roland F. Schwarz

Roles Funding acquisition, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Berlin Institute for Medical Systems Biology, Max Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine in the Helmholtz Association, Berlin, Germany, Institute for Computational Cancer Biology, Center for Integrated Oncology (CIO), Cancer Research Center Cologne Essen (CCCE), Faculty of Medicine and University Hospital Cologne, University of Cologne, Cologne, Germany, Berlin Institute for the Foundations of Learning and Data (BIFOLD), Berlin, Germany

Daniel Tranchina

Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Software, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Department of Biology, New York University, New York, New York, United States of America, Courant Math Institute, New York University, New York, New York, United States of America

Mark L. Siegal

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

mark.siegal@nyu.edu

Affiliations Center for Genomics and Systems Biology, New York University, New York, New York, United States of America, Department of Biology, New York University, New York, New York, United States of America

Competing Interests

MLS is on the Editorial Board of PLOS Biology.