About the Authors

Rebecca Batorsky

Affiliations Department of Physics and Astronomy, Tufts University, Medford, Massachusetts, United States of America, Ragon Institute of MGH, MIT and Harvard, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Rinat A. Sergeev

Current address: Institute for Quantitative Social Science, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, Tufts University, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Igor M. Rouzine

igor.rouzine@gladstone.ucsf.edu

Current address: Gladstone Institute of Virology and Immunology, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, Tufts University, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: RB RAS IMR. Performed the experiments: RB. Analyzed the data: RB. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: RB RAS IMR. Wrote the paper: RB IMR.