About the Authors

Joshua I. Glaser

j-glaser@u.northwestern.edu

Affiliation Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, Northwestern University and Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America

Bradley M. Zamft

Contributed equally to this work with: Bradley M. Zamft, Adam H. Marblestone

Affiliation Department of Genetics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Adam H. Marblestone

Contributed equally to this work with: Bradley M. Zamft, Adam H. Marblestone

Affiliations Biophysics Program, Harvard University, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Wyss Institute, Harvard University, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Jeffrey R. Moffitt

Affiliation Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America

Keith Tyo

Affiliation Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois, United States of America

Edward S. Boyden

Affiliations Media Lab, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America, Department of Biological Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America, McGovern Institute, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America

George Church

Affiliations Department of Genetics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Biophysics Program, Harvard University, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Wyss Institute, Harvard University, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Konrad P. Kording

Affiliations Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, Northwestern University and Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America, Department of Physiology, Northwestern University, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America, Department of Applied Mathematics, Northwestern University, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: JIG BMZ AHM JRM KT ESB GC KPK. Performed the experiments: JIG. Analyzed the data: JIG BMZ AHM JRM KPK. Wrote the paper: JIG BMZ AHM JRM KT ESB GC KPK.