Extended Data Fig. 6: Fits of the predicted traction profiles to the experimental data.

(a) Model (blue curves) and experimental (red and grey curves) average longitudinal tractions for cell trains undergoing coherent motion (top row, red curves) and for other trains (bottom row, grey curves). In the top row, dashed green lines show the level of friction force, as also reported in the bottom left plot of panel (b). (b) Parameter values of the model (equation (1)) obtained from the fits. Error bars are confidence intervals derived from the fits (see Methods).