About the Authors

Pep Charusanti

Affiliation Department of Bioengineering, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, California, United States of America

Tom M. Conrad

Affiliation Department of Bioengineering, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, California, United States of America

Eric M. Knight

Current address: Center for Systems Biology, University of Iceland, Reykjavik, Iceland

Affiliation Department of Bioengineering, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, California, United States of America

Karthik Venkataraman

Affiliation Department of Bioengineering, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, California, United States of America

Nicole L. Fong

Affiliation Department of Bioengineering, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, California, United States of America

Bin Xie

Affiliation Center for the Study of Biological Complexity, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, Virginia, United States of America

Yuan Gao

Affiliations Center for the Study of Biological Complexity, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, Virginia, United States of America, Department of Computer Science, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, Virginia, United States of America

Bernhard Ø. Palsson

bpalsson@ucsd.edu

Affiliation Department of Bioengineering, 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: BØP. Performed the experiments: PC TMC EMK KV NLF BX YG. Analyzed the data: PC TMC EMK KV NLF BØP. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: BX YG. Wrote the paper: PC TMC BØP.