About the Authors

Stefan Legewie

To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail: s.legewie@biologie.hu-berlin.de

Affiliation Institute for Theoretical Biology, Humboldt University, Berlin, Germany

Nils Blüthgen

Affiliation Institute for Theoretical Biology, Humboldt University, Berlin, Germany

Reinhold Schäfer

Affiliation Laboratory of Molecular Tumor Pathology, Charité, Berlin, Germany

Hanspeter Herzel

Affiliation Institute for Theoretical Biology, Humboldt University, Berlin, Germany

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

SL conceived and performed initial simulations. SL, NB, RS, and HH discussed preliminary results, suggested further calculations, and wrote the paper.