About the Authors

Weiqi Lu

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

Affiliation Center for Theoretical Biological Physics, & Department of Physics and Astronomy, Rice University, Houston, Texas, United States of America

José N. Onuchic

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

jonuchic@rice.edu (JNO); dipierro@northeastern.edu (MDP)

Affiliations Center for Theoretical Biological Physics, & Department of Physics and Astronomy, Rice University, Houston, Texas, United States of America, Department of Chemistry, & Department of Biosciences, Rice University, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Michele Di Pierro

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

jonuchic@rice.edu (JNO); dipierro@northeastern.edu (MDP)

Affiliations Department of Physics, Northeastern University, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Center for Theoretical Biological Physics, Northeastern University, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.