About the Authors

Satya Spandana Boddu

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

satya.spandana.boddu@emory.edu (SSB); nic.vega@emory.edu (NMV)

Affiliation Department of Physics, Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America

K. Michael Martini

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

Affiliations Department of Physics, Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America, Initiative for Theory and Modeling of Living Systems, Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America

Ilya Nemenman

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

Affiliations Department of Physics, Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America, Initiative for Theory and Modeling of Living Systems, Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America, Department of Biology, Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America

Nic M. Vega

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

satya.spandana.boddu@emory.edu (SSB); nic.vega@emory.edu (NMV)

Affiliations Department of Physics, Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America, Initiative for Theory and Modeling of Living Systems, Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America, Department of Biology, Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America

Competing Interests

I have read the journal’s policy and the authors of this manuscript have the following competing interests: NMV, who is a senior author on this work, is an editor for PLOS Computational Biology.