About the Authors

James P. Bagrow

Contributed equally to this work with: James P. Bagrow, Dashun Wang

bagrowjp@gmail.com

Affiliations Center for Complex Network Research, Department of Physics, Northeastern University, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Center for Cancer Systems Biology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Dashun Wang

Contributed equally to this work with: James P. Bagrow, Dashun Wang

Affiliations Center for Complex Network Research, Department of Physics, Northeastern University, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Center for Cancer Systems Biology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Albert-László Barabási

Affiliations Center for Complex Network Research, Department of Physics, Northeastern University, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Center for Cancer Systems Biology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Department of Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: JPB DW ALB. Performed the experiments: JPB DW. Analyzed the data: JPB DW. Wrote the paper: JPB DW ALB.