About the Authors

Mahdi Shafiei

Contributed equally to this work with: Mahdi Shafiei, Katherine A. Dunn

Affiliation Department of Mathematics & Statistics, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada

Katherine A. Dunn

Contributed equally to this work with: Mahdi Shafiei, Katherine A. Dunn

Affiliation Department of Biology, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada

Hugh Chipman

Affiliation Department of Mathematics & Statistics, Acadia University, Wolfville, Nova Scotia, Canada

Hong Gu

Affiliation Department of Mathematics & Statistics, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada

Joseph P. Bielawski

j.bielawski@dal.ca

Affiliations Department of Mathematics & Statistics, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada, Department of Biology, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: MS KAD JPB. Performed the experiments: MS KAD. Analyzed the data: KAD. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: MS. Wrote the paper: MS KAD HC HG JPB. Developed modelling framework: MS HC. Designed network model and inference algorithm: MS. Contributed to model design: JPB HC HG. Designed software used in analysis: MS.