About the Authors

Achla Marathe

amarathe@vbi.vt.edu

Affiliations Network Dynamics and Simulation Science Lab, Virginia Bioinformatics Institute at Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Virginia, United States of America, Department of Agricultural and Applied Economics, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Virginia, United States of America

Bryan Lewis

Affiliation Network Dynamics and Simulation Science Lab, Virginia Bioinformatics Institute at Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Virginia, United States of America

Christopher Barrett

Affiliations Network Dynamics and Simulation Science Lab, Virginia Bioinformatics Institute at Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Virginia, United States of America, Department of Computer Science, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Virginia, United States of America

Jiangzhuo Chen

Affiliation Network Dynamics and Simulation Science Lab, Virginia Bioinformatics Institute at Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Virginia, United States of America

Madhav Marathe

Affiliations Network Dynamics and Simulation Science Lab, Virginia Bioinformatics Institute at Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Virginia, United States of America, Department of Computer Science, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Virginia, United States of America

Stephen Eubank

Affiliations Network Dynamics and Simulation Science Lab, Virginia Bioinformatics Institute at Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Virginia, United States of America, Department of Physics, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Virginia, United States of America

Yifei Ma

Affiliation Network Dynamics and Simulation Science Lab, Virginia Bioinformatics Institute at Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Virginia, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: AM BL CB JC MM SE YM. Performed the experiments: AM BL CB JC MM SE YM. Analyzed the data: AM BL CB JC MM SE YM. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: AM BL CB JC MM SE YM. Wrote the paper: AM BL CB JC MM SE YM.