About the Authors

Chao Chen

Contributed equally to this work with: Chao Chen, Duk Shin, Hidenori Watanabe

Affiliation Department of Information Processing, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Yokohama, Japan

Duk Shin

Contributed equally to this work with: Chao Chen, Duk Shin, Hidenori Watanabe

shinduk@cns.pi.titech.ac.jp

Affiliation Precision and Intelligence Laboratory, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Yokohama, Japan

Hidenori Watanabe

Contributed equally to this work with: Chao Chen, Duk Shin, Hidenori Watanabe

Affiliation Department of Developmental Physiology, National Institute for Physiological Sciences, National Institutes of Natural Sciences, Okazaki, Japan

Yasuhiko Nakanishi

Affiliation Precision and Intelligence Laboratory, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Yokohama, Japan

Hiroyuki Kambara

Affiliation Precision and Intelligence Laboratory, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Yokohama, Japan

Natsue Yoshimura

Affiliation Precision and Intelligence Laboratory, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Yokohama, Japan

Atsushi Nambu

Affiliation Graduate University for Advanced Studies (SOKENDAI), Hayama, Japan

Tadashi Isa

Affiliations Department of Developmental Physiology, National Institute for Physiological Sciences, National Institutes of Natural Sciences, Okazaki, Japan, Graduate University for Advanced Studies (SOKENDAI), Hayama, Japan

Yukio Nishimura

Affiliations Department of Developmental Physiology, National Institute for Physiological Sciences, National Institutes of Natural Sciences, Okazaki, Japan, Graduate University for Advanced Studies (SOKENDAI), Hayama, Japan, Precursory Research for Embryonic Science and Technology, Japan Science and Technology Agency, Tokyo, Japan

Yasuharu Koike

Affiliations Department of Information Processing, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Yokohama, Japan, Precision and Intelligence Laboratory, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Yokohama, Japan, CREST, Japan Science and Technology Agency, Kawaguchi, Japan

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: DS HW AN TI Y. Nishimura YK. Performed the experiments: HW AN TI Y. Nishimura. Analyzed the data: CC DS Y. Nakanishi HK NY. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: CC DS. Wrote the paper: CC DS TI.