About the Authors

Rahul Siddharthan

Affiliations Center for Studies in Physics and Biology, The Rockefeller University, New York, New York, United States of America , Institute of Mathematical Sciences, Taramani, Chennai, India

Eric D Siggia

Affiliation Center for Studies in Physics and Biology, The Rockefeller University, New York, New York, United States of America

Erik van Nimwegen

To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail: erik.vannimwegen@unibas.ch

Affiliations Center for Studies in Physics and Biology, The Rockefeller University, New York, New York, United States of America , Division of Bioinformatics, Biozentrum, University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

RS, EDS, and EvN conceived and designed the experiments. RS and EvN performed the experiments and analyzed the data. RS, EDS, and EvN contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools and wrote the paper.