About the Authors

Luis Mier-y-Terán-Romero

Affiliations Department of Physics and Astronomy, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois, United States of America, Laboratory of Computational Systems Biotechnology, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland, Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics, Lausanne, Switzerland

Mary Silber

Affiliations Engineering Sciences and Applied Mathematics, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois, United States of America, Northwestern Institute on Complex Systems, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois, United States of Amerca

Vassily Hatzimanikatis

vassily.hatzimanikatis@epfl.ch

Affiliations Laboratory of Computational Systems Biotechnology, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland, Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics, Lausanne, Switzerland

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: LMyTR MS VH. Performed the experiments: LMyTR. Analyzed the data: LMyTR MS VH. Wrote the paper: LMyTR MS VH.