About the Authors

Truong D. Nguyen-Huu

Contributed equally to this work with: Truong D. Nguyen-Huu, Chinmaya Gupta

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

Chinmaya Gupta

Contributed equally to this work with: Truong D. Nguyen-Huu, Chinmaya Gupta

Affiliation Department of Mathematics, University of Houston, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Bo Ma

Current address: Single Cell Center, Qingdao Institute of Bioenergy and Bioprocess Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Qingdao, Shandong, China

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

William Ott

Affiliation Department of Mathematics, University of Houston, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Krešimir Josić

Affiliations Department of Mathematics, University of Houston, Houston, Texas, United States of America, Department of Biology and Biochemistry, University of Houston, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Matthew R. Bennett

matthew.bennett@rice.edu

Affiliations Department of Biosciences, Rice University, Houston, Texas, United States of America, Institute of Biosciences and Bioengineering, Rice University, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: MRB. Performed the experiments: TDNH BM. Analyzed the data: TDNH CG. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: CG WO. Wrote the paper: TDNH CG WO KJ MRB. Mathematical modeling: CG MRB.