About the Authors

Raamesh Deshpande

Contributed equally to this work with: Raamesh Deshpande, Shikha Sharma

Affiliation Department of Computer Science and Engineering, University of Minnesota - Twin Cities, Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States of America

Shikha Sharma

Contributed equally to this work with: Raamesh Deshpande, Shikha Sharma

Affiliation Department of Chemical Engineering, University of Minnesota - Twin Cities, Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States of America

Catherine M. Verfaillie

Affiliation Interdepartmental Stem Cell Institute Leuven, Catholic University Leuven, Leuven, Belgium

Wei-Shou Hu

Affiliation Department of Chemical Engineering, University of Minnesota - Twin Cities, Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States of America

Chad L. Myers

cmyers@cs.umn.edu

Affiliation Department of Computer Science and Engineering, University of Minnesota - Twin Cities, Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: RD CLM. Performed the experiments: RD SS. Analyzed the data: RD SS WSH CLM. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: RD. Wrote the paper: RD SS WSH CLM. Contributed to biological interpretation of results: CMV WSH.