About the Authors

Cristina S. D. Palma

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

Affiliation Department of Bioengineering, Rice University, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Daniel J. Haller

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

Affiliation Systems, Synthetic, and Physical Biology Ph.D. Program, Rice University, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Jeffrey J. Tabor

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Department of Bioengineering, Rice University, Houston, Texas, United States of America, Systems, Synthetic, and Physical Biology Ph.D. Program, Rice University, Houston, Texas, United States of America, Department of Biosciences, Rice University, Houston, Texas, United States of America, Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, Rice University, Houston, Texas, United States of America, Rice Synthetic Biology Institute, Rice University, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Oleg A. Igoshin

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

igoshin@rice.edu

Affiliations Department of Bioengineering, Rice University, Houston, Texas, United States of America, Department of Biosciences, Rice University, Houston, Texas, United States of America, Rice Synthetic Biology Institute, Rice University, Houston, Texas, United States of America, Center for Theoretical Biological Physics, Rice University, Houston, Texas, United States of America, Department of Chemistry, Rice University, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.