About the Authors

Zixuan Cang

Contributed equally to this work with: Zixuan Cang, Yangyang Wang

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

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

Yangyang Wang

Contributed equally to this work with: Zixuan Cang, Yangyang Wang

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

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

Qixuan Wang

Roles Formal analysis, Validation, Writing – review & editing

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

Ken W. Y. Cho

Roles Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Developmental and Cell Biology, University of California, Irvine, Irvine, California, United States of America

William Holmes

Roles Formal analysis, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Physics and Astronomy, Department of Mathematics, Quantitative Systems Biology Center, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee, United States of America

Qing Nie

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

qnie@math.uci.edu

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

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.