About the Authors

Jagannath Swaminathan

‡ These authors contributed equally to this work.

Affiliations Center for Systems and Synthetic Biology, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas, United States of America, Institute for Cellular and Molecular Biology, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas, United States of America

Alexander A. Boulgakov

‡ These authors contributed equally to this work.

Affiliations Center for Systems and Synthetic Biology, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas, United States of America, Institute for Cellular and Molecular Biology, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas, United States of America

Edward M. Marcotte

marcotte@icmb.utexas.edu

Affiliations Center for Systems and Synthetic Biology, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas, United States of America, Institute for Cellular and Molecular Biology, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas, United States of America, Department of Molecular Biosciences, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas, United States of America

Competing Interests

EMM and JS are inventors on a pending patent application – PCT/US2012/043769. AAB has declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: EMM AAB JS. Performed the experiments: JS AAB. Analyzed the data: EMM JS AAB. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: AAB. Wrote the paper: AAB JS EMM.