About the Authors

David M. Fox

Affiliation Federated Department of Biological Sciences, New Jersey Institute of Technology and Rutgers University, Newark, New Jersey, United States of America

Hua-an Tseng

Current address: Department of Biomedical Engineering, Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Affiliation Federated Department of Biological Sciences, New Jersey Institute of Technology and Rutgers University, Newark, New Jersey, United States of America

Tomasz G. Smolinski

Affiliation Department of Computer and Information Sciences, Delaware State University, Dover, Delaware, United States of America

Horacio G. Rotstein

Contributed equally to this work with: Horacio G. Rotstein, Farzan Nadim

Affiliations Federated Department of Biological Sciences, New Jersey Institute of Technology and Rutgers University, Newark, New Jersey, United States of America, Department of Mathematical Sciences, New Jersey Institute of Technology, Newark, New Jersey, United States of America

Farzan Nadim

Contributed equally to this work with: Horacio G. Rotstein, Farzan Nadim

farzan@njit.edu

Affiliations Federated Department of Biological Sciences, New Jersey Institute of Technology and Rutgers University, Newark, New Jersey, United States of America, Department of Mathematical Sciences, New Jersey Institute of Technology, Newark, New Jersey, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceptualization: DMF HGR FN. Data curation: DMF. Formal analysis: DMF. Funding acquisition: HGR FN TGS. Investigation: DMF. Methodology: DMF HGR FN. Project administration: HGR FN. Resources: FN. Software: DMF. Supervision: HGR FN. Validation: DMF HGR FN. Visualization: DMF HGR FN. Writing – original draft: DMF HGR FN. Writing – review & editing: DMF HGR FN TGS HT.