About the Authors

Jerry S. Chen

Affiliations Computational Science Research Center, San Diego State University, San Diego, California, United States of America, Department of Biology, San Diego State University, San Diego, California, United States of America

Abygail M. Gumbayan

Affiliation Department of Biology, San Diego State University, San Diego, California, United States of America

Robert W. Zeller

Affiliations Computational Science Research Center, San Diego State University, San Diego, California, United States of America, Department of Biology, San Diego State University, San Diego, California, United States of America

Joseph M. Mahaffy

jmahaffy@mail.sdsu.edu

Affiliations Computational Science Research Center, San Diego State University, San Diego, California, United States of America, Department of Mathematics and Statistics, San Diego State University, San Diego, California, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: JSC RWZ JMM. Performed the experiments: JSC AMG RWZ. Analyzed the data: JSC AMG JMM. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: JSC RWZ JMM. Wrote the paper: JSC RWZ JMM. Mathematical modeling and analysis: JSC JMM.