About the Authors

Nir Friedman

Contributed equally to this work with: Nir Friedman, Shuki Vardi

Current address: Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America

Affiliation Department of Physics of Complex Systems, The Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel

Shuki Vardi

Contributed equally to this work with: Nir Friedman, Shuki Vardi

Affiliation Department of Physics of Complex Systems, The Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel

Michal Ronen

Current address: Department of Molecular Pharmacology, Stanford University CCSR, Stanford, California, United States of America

Affiliation Department of Molecular Cell Biology, The Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel

Uri Alon

Affiliations Department of Physics of Complex Systems, The Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel, Department of Molecular Cell Biology, The Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel

Joel Stavans

To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail: joel.stavans@weizmann.ac.il

Affiliation Department of Physics of Complex Systems, The Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

UA and JS conceived and designed the experiments. NF and SV performed the experiments and analyzed the data. MR contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools. NF, SV, UA, and JS wrote the paper.