About the Authors

Zhuo Wang

Affiliation Center for Bioinformatics, National Laboratory of Protein Engineering and Plant Genetic Engineering, College of Life Sciences, Peking University, Beijing, People’s Republic of China

Andrew T. Sornborger

ats@math.ucdavis.edu (ATS); taolt@mail.cbi.pku.edu.cn (LT)

Affiliation Department of Mathematics, University of California, Davis, Davis, California, United States of America

Louis Tao

ats@math.ucdavis.edu (ATS); taolt@mail.cbi.pku.edu.cn (LT)

Affiliations Center for Bioinformatics, National Laboratory of Protein Engineering and Plant Genetic Engineering, College of Life Sciences, Peking University, Beijing, People’s Republic of China, Center for Quantitative Biology, Peking University, Beijing, People’s Republic of China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Analyzed the data: ZW ATS LT. Wrote the paper: ZW ATS LT. Conceived and designed the simulations: ZW ATS LT. Performed the simulations: ZW ATS LT. Developed the theory: ZW ATS LT.