About the Authors

Suhita Nadkarni

Contributed equally to this work with: Suhita Nadkarni, Thomas M. Bartol

Affiliations Center for Theoretical Biological Physics, University of California at San Diego, La Jolla, California, United States of America, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Salk Institute for Biological Studies, La Jolla, California, United States of America

Thomas M. Bartol

Contributed equally to this work with: Suhita Nadkarni, Thomas M. Bartol

Affiliations Center for Theoretical Biological Physics, University of California at San Diego, La Jolla, California, United States of America, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Salk Institute for Biological Studies, La Jolla, California, United States of America

Terrence J. Sejnowski

terry@salk.edu

Affiliations Center for Theoretical Biological Physics, University of California at San Diego, La Jolla, California, United States of America, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Salk Institute for Biological Studies, La Jolla, California, United States of America, Division of Biological Sciences, University of California at San Diego, La Jolla, California, United States of America

Herbert Levine

Affiliation Center for Theoretical Biological Physics, University of California at San Diego, La Jolla, California, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: SN TMB TJS HL. Performed the experiments: SN TMB. Analyzed the data: SN TMB. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: SN TMB TJS HL. Wrote the paper: SN TMB TJS HL.