About the Authors

Manu

Contributed equally to this work with: Manu, Svetlana Surkova

Affiliation Department of Applied Mathematics and Statistics, and Center for Developmental Genetics, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, New York, United States of America

Svetlana Surkova

Contributed equally to this work with: Manu, Svetlana Surkova

Affiliation Department of Computational Biology, Center for Advanced Studies, St. Petersburg State Polytechnical University, St. Petersburg, Russia

Alexander V. Spirov

Affiliation Department of Applied Mathematics and Statistics, and Center for Developmental Genetics, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, New York, United States of America

Vitaly V. Gursky

Affiliation Theoretical Department, The Ioffe Physico-Technical Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences, St. Petersburg, Russia

Hilde Janssens

Affiliation EMBL/CRG Research Unit in Systems Biology, CRG – Centre de Regulació Genòmica, Barcelona, Spain

Ah-Ram Kim

Affiliation Department of Applied Mathematics and Statistics, and Center for Developmental Genetics, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, New York, United States of America

Ovidiu Radulescu

Affiliation Institute of Mathematical Research of Rennes, University of Rennes, Rennes, France

Carlos E. Vanario-Alonso

Affiliation Department of Applied Mathematics and Statistics, and Center for Developmental Genetics, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, New York, United States of America

David H. Sharp

Affiliation Theoretical Division, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, New Mexico, United States of America

Maria Samsonova

Affiliation Department of Computational Biology, Center for Advanced Studies, St. Petersburg State Polytechnical University, St. Petersburg, Russia

John Reinitz

reinitz@odd.bio.sunysb.edu

Affiliation Department of Applied Mathematics and Statistics, and Center for Developmental Genetics, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, New York, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: M AVS DHS MS JR. Performed the experiments: M VVG HJ ARK OR CEVA. Analyzed the data: SS. Wrote the paper: M OR DHS MS JR.