About the Authors

Dominic G. Whittaker

Affiliation Biological Physics Group, School of Physics & Astronomy, The University of Manchester, Manchester, United Kingdom

Haibo Ni

Affiliation Biological Physics Group, School of Physics & Astronomy, The University of Manchester, Manchester, United Kingdom

Aziza El Harchi

Affiliation Department of Physiology, Pharmacology and Neuroscience, and Cardiovascular Research Laboratories, School of Medical Sciences, University of Bristol, Bristol, United Kingdom

Jules C. Hancox

henggui.zhang@manchester.ac.uk (HZ); jules.hancox@bristol.ac.uk (JCH)

Affiliations Biological Physics Group, School of Physics & Astronomy, The University of Manchester, Manchester, United Kingdom, Department of Physiology, Pharmacology and Neuroscience, and Cardiovascular Research Laboratories, School of Medical Sciences, University of Bristol, Bristol, United Kingdom

Henggui Zhang

henggui.zhang@manchester.ac.uk (HZ); jules.hancox@bristol.ac.uk (JCH)

Affiliations Biological Physics Group, School of Physics & Astronomy, The University of Manchester, Manchester, United Kingdom, School of Computer Science and Technology, Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin, China, Space Institute of Southern China, Shenzhen, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceptualization: JCH HZ DGW. Data curation: DGW HZ JCH AEH. Formal analysis: DGW HN JCH HZ. Funding acquisition: JCH HZ. Investigation: DGW JCH HZ. Methodology: DGW JCH HZ HN. Project administration: HZ JCH. Resources: HZ JCH DGW HN AEH. Software: DGW HN. Supervision: HZ JCH. Validation: DGW. Visualization: DGW. Writing – original draft: DGW JCH HZ HN. Writing – review & editing: DGW JCH HZ HN AEH.