About the Authors

Zhijian Hu

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

zhijianh@umich.edu (ZH); kbwood@umich.edu (KW)

Affiliations Department of Biophysics, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States of America, Department of Mathematics, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States of America, Center for the Study of Complex Systems, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States of America

Yuzhen Wu

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis

Affiliation Department of Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States of America

Tomas Freire

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Center for Computational and Stochastic Mathematics, Instituto Superior Técnico, University of Lisbon, Lisbon, Portugal

Erida Gjini

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Center for Computational and Stochastic Mathematics, Instituto Superior Técnico, University of Lisbon, Lisbon, Portugal

Kevin Wood

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Validation, Writing – review & editing

zhijianh@umich.edu (ZH); kbwood@umich.edu (KW)

deceased.

Affiliations Department of Biophysics, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States of America, Center for the Study of Complex Systems, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States of America, Department of Physics, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.