About the Authors

Sameeran Kunche

Contributed equally to this work with: Sameeran Kunche, Huaming Yan

Affiliations Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of California, Irvine, Irvine, California, United States of America, Center for Complex Biological Systems, University of California, Irvine, Irvine, California, United States of America

Huaming Yan

Contributed equally to this work with: Sameeran Kunche, Huaming Yan

Affiliations Center for Complex Biological Systems, University of California, Irvine, Irvine, California, United States of America, Department of Mathematics, University of California, Irvine, Irvine, California, United States of America

Anne L. Calof

alcalof@uci.edu (ALC); lowengrb@math.uci.edu (JSL); adlander@uci.edu (ADL)

Affiliations Center for Complex Biological Systems, University of California, Irvine, Irvine, California, United States of America, Department of Developmental and Cell Biology, University of California, Irvine, Irvine, California, United States of America, Department of Anatomy and Neurobiology, University of California, Irvine, Irvine, California, United States of America

John S. Lowengrub

alcalof@uci.edu (ALC); lowengrb@math.uci.edu (JSL); adlander@uci.edu (ADL)

Affiliations Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of California, Irvine, Irvine, California, United States of America, Center for Complex Biological Systems, University of California, Irvine, Irvine, California, United States of America, Department of Mathematics, University of California, Irvine, Irvine, California, United States of America

Arthur D. Lander

alcalof@uci.edu (ALC); lowengrb@math.uci.edu (JSL); adlander@uci.edu (ADL)

Affiliations Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of California, Irvine, Irvine, California, United States of America, Center for Complex Biological Systems, University of California, Irvine, Irvine, California, United States of America, Department of Developmental and Cell Biology, University of California, Irvine, Irvine, California, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: SK HY ALC JSL ADL. Performed the experiments: SK HY. Analyzed the data: SK HY ALC JSL ADL. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: ALC JSL ADL. Wrote the paper: SK HY ALC JSL ADL.