Table 3.

Parameter values obtained from simulated noisy data (with noisy data (three experiments))

	Profile 1	Profile 2	Profile 3	Profile 4
f13	-0.67	-0.64	-0.62	-0.92
f21	0.33	0.9	0.49	0.69
f32	0.42	1	0.73	1
f41	0.64	0	0.38	0.26
f53	0.49	0.66	0.3	0.4
f54	0.05	-0.95	0.22	0.34
f64	1	1	0.53	0.58
Residual	6.96	7.10	5.39	4.89

We solved a total of 100 problems, generated randomly. See Additional file 1: Table S2.