About the Authors

Gašper Tkačik

gtkacik@princeton.edu

Affiliation Joseph Henry Laboratories of Physics, Lewis–Sigler Institute for Integrative Genomics, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey, United States of America

Thomas Gregor

Affiliations Joseph Henry Laboratories of Physics, Lewis–Sigler Institute for Integrative Genomics, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey, United States of America, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey, United States of America

William Bialek

Affiliations Joseph Henry Laboratories of Physics, Lewis–Sigler Institute for Integrative Genomics, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey, United States of America, Princeton Center for Theoretical Physics, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: GT TG WB. Performed the experiments: TG. Analyzed the data: GT TG WB. Wrote the paper: GT TG WB.