About the Authors

Grace E. Johnson

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Department of Molecular Biology, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey, United States of America, The Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Chevy Chase, Maryland, United States of America

Chenyi Fei

Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Current address: Department of Mathematics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America

Affiliations Department of Molecular Biology, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey, United States of America, Lewis-Sigler Institute for Integrative Genomics, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey, United States of America

Ned S. Wingreen

Roles Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Department of Molecular Biology, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey, United States of America, Lewis-Sigler Institute for Integrative Genomics, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey, United States of America

Bonnie L. Bassler

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

bbassler@princeton.edu

Affiliations Department of Molecular Biology, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey, United States of America, The Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Chevy Chase, Maryland, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.