About the Authors

Maurizio De Pittà

Affiliation School of Physics and Astronomy, Tel Aviv University, Ramat Aviv, Israel

Vladislav Volman

Affiliations Center for Theoretical Biological Physics, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, California, United States of America, Computational Neurobiology Laboratory, The Salk Institute, La Jolla, California, United States of America

Hugues Berry

Affiliation Project-Team Beagle, INRIA Rhône-Alpes, Université de Lyon, LIRIS, UMR5205, Villeurbanne, France

Eshel Ben-Jacob

eshel@tamar.tau.ac.il

Affiliations School of Physics and Astronomy, Tel Aviv University, Ramat Aviv, Israel, Center for Theoretical Biological Physics, 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: MDP VV HB EBJ. Performed the experiments: MDP. Analyzed the data: MDP VV HB EBJ. Wrote the paper: MDP VV HB EBJ.