About the Authors

Chen Hou

Affiliation Department of Systems and Computational Biology, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, New York, United States of America

Stefan Gheorghiu

Affiliation Center for Complexity Studies, Bucharest, Romania

Virginia H. Huxley

Affiliation Department of Medical Pharmacology and Physiology, University of Missouri, Columbia, Missouri, United States of America

Peter Pfeifer

pfeiferp@missouri.edu

Affiliation Department of Physics, University of Missouri, Columbia, Missouri, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: CH SG VHH PP. Performed the experiments: CH SG VHH PP. Analyzed the data: CH SG PP. Wrote the paper: CH PP.