About the Authors

Edward J. O’Brien

Affiliations Department of Bioengineering, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, California, United States of America, Bioinformatics and Systems Biology program, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, California, United States of America

Jose Utrilla

Affiliations Department of Bioengineering, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, California, United States of America, Centro de Ciencias Genómicas. Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Cuernavaca, Morelos, México

Bernhard O. Palsson

palsson@eng.ucsd.edu

Affiliations Department of Bioengineering, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, California, United States of America, Novo Nordisk Foundation Center for Biosustainability, Technical University of Denmark, Lyngby, Denmark, Department of Pediatrics, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, California, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: EJO BOP. Performed the experiments: EJO JU. Analyzed the data: EJO. Wrote the paper: EJO JU BOP.