About the Authors

Assaf Zaritsky

Current address: Department of Cell Biology, UT Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, Texas, United States of America

Affiliation Blavatnik School of Computer Science, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel

Doron Kaplan

Affiliation Israel Institute for Biological Research, Ness Ziona, Israel

Inbal Hecht

Affiliation School of Physics and Astronomy, The Raymond and Beverly Sackler Faculty of Exact Sciences, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel

Sari Natan

Affiliation Department of Clinical Microbiology and Immunology, Sackler School of Medicine, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel

Lior Wolf

Affiliation Blavatnik School of Computer Science, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel

Nir S. Gov

Affiliation Department of Chemical Physics, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel

Eshel Ben-Jacob

eshelbj@gmail.com (EBJ); ilants@post.tau.ac.il (IT)

Affiliations School of Physics and Astronomy, The Raymond and Beverly Sackler Faculty of Exact Sciences, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel, Center for Theoretical Biological Physics, Rice University, Houston, Texas, United States of America, Research & Development Unit, Assaf Harofeh Medical Center, Zerifin, Israel

Ilan Tsarfaty

eshelbj@gmail.com (EBJ); ilants@post.tau.ac.il (IT)

Affiliation Department of Clinical Microbiology and Immunology, Sackler School of Medicine, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: AZ IH LW NSG EBJ IT. Performed the experiments: DK SN. Analyzed the data: AZ DK. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: AZ. Wrote the paper: AZ NSG EBJ IT. Developed the theoretical model: NSG. Revised the manuscript: DK IH LW SN.