About the Authors

Fan Li

Affiliation Department of Bioengineering, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, California, United States of America

Ines Thiele

Affiliations Department of Bioengineering, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, California, United States of America, Ph.D. Program in Bioinformatics, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, California, United States of America

Neema Jamshidi

Affiliation Department of Bioengineering, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, California, United States of America

Bernhard Ø. Palsson

palsson@ucsd.edu

Affiliation Department of Bioengineering, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, California, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: FL IT NJ BØP. Performed the experiments: FL. Analyzed the data: FL IT NJ. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: FL. Wrote the paper: FL IT NJ BØP.