About the Authors

James T. Yurkovich

Contributed equally to this work with: James T. Yurkovich, Laurence Yang

Affiliations Department of Bioengineering, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, California, United States of America, Bioinformatics and Systems Biology Program, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, California, United States of America

Laurence Yang

Contributed equally to this work with: James T. Yurkovich, Laurence Yang

Affiliation Department of Bioengineering, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, California, United States of America

Bernhard O. Palsson

palsson@ucsd.edu

Affiliations Department of Bioengineering, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, California, United States of America, Bioinformatics and Systems Biology Program, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, California, United States of America, Department of Pediatrics, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, California, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceptualization: JTY LY BOP. Formal analysis: JTY. Writing – original draft: JTY LY BOP. Writing – review & editing: JTY LY BOP.