About the Authors

Olin K. Silander

olinsilander@gmail.com

Affiliations Computational and Systems Biology, Biozentrum, University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland, Department of Environmental Sciences, Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule (ETH) Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland, Department of Environmental Microbiology, Eawag, Dubendorf, Switzerland

Nela Nikolic

Affiliations Department of Environmental Sciences, Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule (ETH) Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland, Department of Environmental Microbiology, Eawag, Dubendorf, Switzerland

Alon Zaslaver

Affiliation Division of Biology, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California, United States of America

Anat Bren

Affiliation Department of Molecular Cell Biology and Department of Physics of Complex Systems, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel

Ilya Kikoin

Affiliation Department of Molecular Cell Biology and Department of Physics of Complex Systems, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel

Uri Alon

Affiliation Department of Molecular Cell Biology and Department of Physics of Complex Systems, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel

Martin Ackermann

Affiliations Department of Environmental Sciences, Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule (ETH) Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland, Department of Environmental Microbiology, Eawag, Dubendorf, Switzerland

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: OKS NN MA AZ. Performed the experiments: OKS NN AZ AB IK. Analyzed the data: OKS NN MA. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: AZ AB IK UA. Wrote the paper: OKS NN MA.