About the Authors

Bruno M. C. Martins

bruno.martins@ed.ac.uk (BMCM); peter.swain@ed.ac.uk (PSS)

Affiliation SynthSys – Synthetic and Systems Biology, The University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, United Kingdom

Peter S. Swain

bruno.martins@ed.ac.uk (BMCM); peter.swain@ed.ac.uk (PSS)

Affiliation SynthSys – Synthetic and Systems Biology, The University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, United Kingdom

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Wrote the paper: BMCM PSS. Conceived research: PSS. Designed and performed research: BMCM.