About the Authors

Libin Rong

Affiliation Theoretical Biology and Biophysics, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, New Mexico, United States of America

Alan S. Perelson

asp@lanl.gov

Affiliation Theoretical Biology and Biophysics, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, New Mexico, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: LR ASP. Performed the experiments: LR. Analyzed the data: LR. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: LR. Wrote the paper: LR ASP.