About the Authors

Nobuyuki Uchikoga

uchikoga@phys.chuo-u.ac.jp

Affiliations Department of Physics, Chuo University, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo, Japan, Grand Challenge Applications Project for Life Sciences, Next-Generation Integrated Simulation of Living Matter, Computational Science Research Program, Riken, Wako, Saitama, Japan

Yuri Matsuzaki

Affiliations Grand Challenge Applications Project for Life Sciences, Next-Generation Integrated Simulation of Living Matter, Computational Science Research Program, Riken, Wako, Saitama, Japan, Department of Computer Science, Graduate School of Information Science and Engineering, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Meguro-ku, Tokyo, Japan

Masahito Ohue

Affiliations Department of Computer Science, Graduate School of Information Science and Engineering, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Meguro-ku, Tokyo, Japan, Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, Tokyo, Japan, Education Academy of Computational Life Sciences, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Meguro-ku, Tokyo, Japan

Takatsugu Hirokawa

Affiliation Computational Bioinformatics Research Center, AIST, Koto-ku, Tokyo, Japan

Yutaka Akiyama

Affiliations Grand Challenge Applications Project for Life Sciences, Next-Generation Integrated Simulation of Living Matter, Computational Science Research Program, Riken, Wako, Saitama, Japan, Department of Computer Science, Graduate School of Information Science and Engineering, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Meguro-ku, Tokyo, Japan, Education Academy of Computational Life Sciences, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Meguro-ku, Tokyo, Japan

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: NU TH. Performed the experiments: YM MO YA. Analyzed the data: NU. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: NU YM MO. Wrote the paper: NU TH.