About the Authors

Shuonan Chen

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Software, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

sc4417@cumc.columbia.edu

Affiliations Mortimer B. Zuckerman Mind Brain Behavior Institute, Columbia University, New York, New York, United States of America, Department of Statistics, Columbia University, New York, New York, United States of America, Center for Theoretical Neuroscience, Columbia University, New York, New York, United States of America, Grossman Center for the Statistics of Mind, Columbia University, New York, New York, United States of America, Department of Neuroscience, Columbia University, New York, New York, United States of America, Department of Systems Biology, Columbia University, New York, New York, United States of America

Jackson Loper

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Software, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Mortimer B. Zuckerman Mind Brain Behavior Institute, Columbia University, New York, New York, United States of America, Department of Statistics, Columbia University, New York, New York, United States of America, Center for Theoretical Neuroscience, Columbia University, New York, New York, United States of America, Grossman Center for the Statistics of Mind, Columbia University, New York, New York, United States of America, Department of Neuroscience, Columbia University, New York, New York, United States of America, Data Science Institute, Columbia University, New York, New York, United States of America

Xiaoyin Chen

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Funding acquisition, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, Cold Spring Harbor, New York, United States of America

Alex Vaughan

Roles Conceptualization

Affiliation Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, Cold Spring Harbor, New York, United States of America

Anthony M. Zador

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Supervision

Affiliation Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, Cold Spring Harbor, New York, United States of America

Liam Paninski

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Mortimer B. Zuckerman Mind Brain Behavior Institute, Columbia University, New York, New York, United States of America, Department of Statistics, Columbia University, New York, New York, United States of America, Center for Theoretical Neuroscience, Columbia University, New York, New York, United States of America, Grossman Center for the Statistics of Mind, Columbia University, New York, New York, United States of America, Department of Neuroscience, Columbia University, New York, New York, United States of America, Data Science Institute, Columbia University, New York, New York, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.