About the Authors

Wai Lim Ku

wlku@umd.edu

Affiliation Department of Physics and the Institute for Physical Science and Technology, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland, United States of America

Geet Duggal

Affiliations Center for Bioinformatics and Computational Biology, Institute for Advance Computer Studies, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland, United States of America, Department of Computer Science, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland, United States of America

Yuan Li

Affiliation Department of Cell Biology and Molecular Genetics, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland, United States of America

Michelle Girvan

Affiliation Department of Physics and the Institute for Physical Science and Technology, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland, United States of America

Edward Ott

Affiliation Department of Physics and the Institute for Physical Science and Technology, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: MG EO GD WLK YL. Performed the experiments: WLK. Analyzed the data: EO MG WLK GD YL. Wrote the paper: WLK EO MG YL GD.