About the Authors

Katrin Böttger

‡ The authors contributed equally to this article.

Affiliation Center for Information Services and High Performance Computing, Technische Universität Dresden, Dresden, Germany

Haralambos Hatzikirou

‡ The authors contributed equally to this article.

Affiliation Center for Advancing Electronics, Technische Universität Dresden, Dresden, Germany

Anja Voss-Böhme

Affiliations Center for Information Services and High Performance Computing, Technische Universität Dresden, Dresden, Germany, Hochschule für Technik und Wirtschaft Dresden, Dresden, Germany

Elisabetta Ada Cavalcanti-Adam

Affiliations Department of Biophysical Chemistry, Institute of Physical Chemistry, University of Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany, Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems, Stuttgart, Germany

Miguel A. Herrero

Affiliation Departamento de Matemática Aplicada, Facultad de Matemáticas, Universidad Complutense, Madrid, Spain

Andreas Deutsch

andreas.deutsch@tu-dresden.de

Affiliation Center for Information Services and High Performance Computing, Technische Universität Dresden, Dresden, Germany

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Wrote the paper: KB HH AVB EACA MAH AD. Supervised the study and gave substantial input to the manuscript: HH AVB MAH AD. Conceived and designed the model and performed simulations: KB. Analyzed the model: KB HH AVB MAH.