About the Authors

Xiaoqiang Sun

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Software, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

sunxq6@mail.sysu.edu.cn, xiaoqiangsun88@gmail.com (XS); qnie@uci.edu (QN)

Affiliations Key Laboratory of Tropical Disease Control, Chinese Ministry of Education; Zhongshan School of Medicine, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, China, School of Mathematics, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, China

Ji Zhang

Roles Validation

Affiliation State Key Laboratory of Oncology in South China, Collaborative Innovation Center for Cancer Medicine, Sun Yat-sen University Cancer Center, Guangzhou, Guangdong, China

Qing Nie

Roles Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

sunxq6@mail.sysu.edu.cn, xiaoqiangsun88@gmail.com (XS); qnie@uci.edu (QN)

Affiliation Department of Mathematics and Department of Developmental & Cell Biology, NSF-Simons Center for Multiscale Cell Fate Research, University of California Irvine, Irvine, California, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.