About the Authors

James J. Winkle

Contributed equally to this work with: James J. Winkle, Bhargav R. Karamched

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Software, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

winkle@math.uh.edu (JJW); bkaramched@fsu.edu (BRK)

Affiliation Department of Mathematics, University of Houston, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Bhargav R. Karamched

Contributed equally to this work with: James J. Winkle, Bhargav R. Karamched

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Software, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

winkle@math.uh.edu (JJW); bkaramched@fsu.edu (BRK)

Affiliations Department of Mathematics, Florida State University, Tallahassee, Florida, United States of America, Institute of Molecular Biophysics, Florida State University, Tallahassee, Florida, United States of America

Matthew R. Bennett

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Department of Bioengineering, Rice University, Houston, Texas, United States of America, Department of Biosciences, Rice University, Houston, Texas, United States of America

William Ott

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Mathematics, University of Houston, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Krešimir Josić

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Department of Mathematics, University of Houston, Houston, Texas, United States of America, Department of Biosciences, Rice University, Houston, Texas, United States of America, Department of Biology and Biochemistry, University of Houston, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.