About the Authors

Deborah M. Gordon

dmgordon@stanford.edu

Affiliation Department of Biology, Stanford University, Stanford, California, United States of America

Katherine N. Dektar

Current address: Google, Mountain View, California, United States of America

Affiliation Department of Biology, Stanford University, Stanford, California, United States of America

Noa Pinter-Wollman

Current address: University of California San Diego, BioCircuits Institute, La Jolla, California, United States of America

Affiliation Department of Biology, Stanford University, Stanford, California, United States of America

Competing Interests

One of the authors, Katherine N. Dektar, is currently employed at Google. She did the work reported in this manuscript while she was an undergraduate at Stanford and the work is not related in any way to her work at Google. This does not alter the authors' adherence to all the PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials. Deborah M. Gordon is a member of the PLOS ONE editorial board. This does not alter the authors' adherence to all the PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: DMG. Performed the experiments: DMG KND NPW. Analyzed the data: DMG KND NPW. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: DMG. Wrote the paper: DMG.