About the Authors

Oliwia M. Szklarczyk

Affiliations MOSAIC Group, Institute of Theoretical Computer Science and Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics, ETH Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland, Laboratory of Physical Chemistry, ETH Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland

Nélido González-Segredo

Current address: Center for Nonlinear Phenomena and Complex Systems Universite´ Libre de Bruxelles, Brussels, Belgium.

Affiliation MOSAIC Group, Institute of Theoretical Computer Science and Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics, ETH Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland

Philipp Kukura

Current address: Physical and Theoretical Chemistry Laboratory, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom.

Affiliation Laboratory of Physical Chemistry, ETH Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland

Ariella Oppenheim

Affiliation Department of Haematology, Hebrew University Faculty of Medicine, Jerusalem, Israel

Daniel Choquet

Affiliation 4UMR 5297 CNRS, Universite de Bordeaux, Bordeaux, France

Vahid Sandoghdar

Current address: Max-Planck Institute for the Science of Light, Erlangen, Germany.

Affiliation Laboratory of Physical Chemistry, ETH Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland

Ari Helenius

Affiliation Institute of Biochemistry, ETH Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland

Ivo F. Sbalzarini

Current address: MOSAIC Group, Center of Systems Biology, Max Planck Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics, Dresden, Germany.

Affiliation MOSAIC Group, Institute of Theoretical Computer Science and Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics, ETH Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland

Helge Ewers

helge.ewers@kcl.ac.uk

Current address: Randall Division of Cell and Molecular Biophysics, King's College London, London, United Kingdom.

Affiliations Laboratory of Physical Chemistry, ETH Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland, Institute of Biochemistry, ETH Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Analyzed the data: OMS AH HE. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: AO DC VS. Wrote the paper: OMS AH IFS HE. Created project concept: HE. Performed biophysical experiments and analysis: PK VS HE. Conceived the computational model: OMS NGS IFS. Designed, performed and analyzed the computational experiments: OMS.