About the Authors

Christoph G. Engert

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Project administration, Software, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Dept. Biology, MIT, Cambridge, MA, United States of America, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, MIT, Cambridge, MA, United States of America, Computational & Systems Biology Graduate Program, MIT, Cambridge, MA, United States of America

Rita Droste

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Dept. Biology, MIT, Cambridge, MA, United States of America, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, MIT, Cambridge, MA, United States of America

Alexander van Oudenaarden

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

Current address: Hubrecht Institute, AD Utrecht, NL

Affiliations Dept. Biology, MIT, Cambridge, MA, United States of America, Dept. Physics, MIT, Cambridge, MA, United States of America

H. Robert Horvitz

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

horvitz@mit.edu

Affiliations Dept. Biology, MIT, Cambridge, MA, United States of America, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, MIT, Cambridge, MA, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.