About the Authors

Ilya Nemenman

nemenman@lanl.gov

Affiliation Computer, Computational, and Statistical Sciences Division and Center for Nonlinear Studies, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, New Mexico, United States of America

Geoffrey D. Lewen

Affiliation The Hun School of Princeton, Princeton, New Jersey, United States of America

William Bialek

Affiliations Joseph Henry Laboratories of Physics, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey, United States of America, Lewis–Sigler Institute for Integrative Genomics, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey, United States of America

Rob R. de Ruyter van Steveninck

Affiliation Department of Physics, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

The theoretical ideas and experimental methods presented in this paper were developed in close collaboration. IN and WB focused on developing the conceptual framework, implementing statistical tools, and analyzing the data. GL and RR designed the setup and performed the experiments.