About the Authors

V. Anne Smith

Contributed equally to this work with: V. Anne Smith, Jing Yu

¤ Current address: School of Biology, University of St. Andrews, St. Andrews, Fife, United Kingdom (VAS); Novartis Institute for Biomedical Research, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America (JY)

Affiliation Department of Neurobiology, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America

Jing Yu

Contributed equally to this work with: V. Anne Smith, Jing Yu

¤ Current address: School of Biology, University of St. Andrews, St. Andrews, Fife, United Kingdom (VAS); Novartis Institute for Biomedical Research, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America (JY)

Affiliations Department of Neurobiology, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America , Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America

Tom V Smulders

Affiliation School of Biology and Psychology, University of Newcastle upon Tyne, Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom

Alexander J Hartemink

To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail: jarvis@neuro.duke.edu (EDJ); amink@cs.duke.edu (AJH)

Affiliation Department of Computer Science, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America

Erich D Jarvis

To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail: jarvis@neuro.duke.edu (EDJ); amink@cs.duke.edu (AJH)

Affiliation Department of Neurobiology, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

VAS, JY, TVS, AJH, and EDJ conceived and designed the experiments. VAS, JY, and TVS performed the experiments. VAS and JY analyzed the data. TVS and EDJ contributed reagents and materials. JY developed the C++ network inference algorithm based on code from AJH. VAS, AJH, and EDJ wrote the paper.