About the Authors

Volkan Sevim

volkan.sevim@duke.edu

Affiliations Physics Department and Center for Nonlinear and Complex Systems, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America, Center for Systems Biology, Institute for Genome Science and Policy, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America

Xinwei Gong

Affiliations Physics Department and Center for Nonlinear and Complex Systems, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America, Center for Systems Biology, Institute for Genome Science and Policy, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America

Joshua E. S. Socolar

Affiliations Physics Department and Center for Nonlinear and Complex Systems, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America, Center for Systems Biology, Institute for Genome Science and Policy, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: VS. Analyzed the data: VS. Wrote the paper: VS JESS. Developed computer simulations, contributed to data analysis: XG. Contributed to analysis, development of the theory and production of the paper: JESS.