About the Authors

Simone Pompei

Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

simone.pompei@ifom.eu (SP); marco.cosentino-lagomarsino@ifom.eu (MCL)

Affiliation IFOM ETS - The AIRC Institute of Molecular Oncology, Milan, Italy

Edoardo Bella

Roles Investigation, Methodology, Software

Affiliation Dipartimento di Fisica, Università degli Studi di Milano, via Celoria 16 Milano, Italy

Joshua S. Weitz

Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Department of Biology, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland, United States of America, Department of Physics, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland, United States of America, Institut de Biologie, École Normale Supérieure, Paris, France

Jacopo Grilli

Contributed equally to this work with: Jacopo Grilli, Marco Cosentino Lagomarsino

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Software, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Quantitative Life Sciences, The Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics (ICTP), Trieste, Italy

Marco Cosentino Lagomarsino

Contributed equally to this work with: Jacopo Grilli, Marco Cosentino Lagomarsino

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Software, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

simone.pompei@ifom.eu (SP); marco.cosentino-lagomarsino@ifom.eu (MCL)

Affiliations IFOM ETS - The AIRC Institute of Molecular Oncology, Milan, Italy, Dipartimento di Fisica, Università degli Studi di Milano, via Celoria 16 Milano, Italy, I.N.F.N, via Celoria 16 Milano, Italy

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.