About the Authors

Christo Morison

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

Affiliation School of Mathematical Sciences, Queen Mary University of London, London, United Kingdom

Dudley Stark

Roles Formal analysis, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation School of Mathematical Sciences, Queen Mary University of London, London, United Kingdom

Weini Huang

Roles Conceptualization, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

weini.huang@qmul.ac.uk

Affiliations School of Mathematical Sciences, Queen Mary University of London, London, United Kingdom, Group of Theoretical Biology, Research Section of Genomics, School of Life Sciences, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.