About the Authors

Jinghao Chen

Contributed equally to this work with: Jinghao Chen, Jesse R. Holt

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Software, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Mathematics, University of California, Irvine, Irvine, California, United States of America

Jesse R. Holt

Contributed equally to this work with: Jinghao Chen, Jesse R. Holt

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Software, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Department of Physiology & Biophysics, University of California, Irvine, Irvine, California, United States of America, Sue and Bill Gross Stem Cell Research Center, 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

Elizabeth L. Evans

Roles Investigation, Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Department of Physiology & Biophysics, University of California, Irvine, Irvine, California, United States of America, Sue and Bill Gross Stem Cell Research Center, University of California, Irvine, Irvine, California, United States of America

John S. Lowengrub

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

lowengrb@math.uci.edu (JSL); medhap@uci.edu (MMP)

Affiliations Department of Mathematics, 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 Biomedical Engineering, University of California, Irvine, Irvine, California, United States of America

Medha M. Pathak

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

lowengrb@math.uci.edu (JSL); medhap@uci.edu (MMP)

Affiliations Department of Physiology & Biophysics, University of California, Irvine, Irvine, California, United States of America, Sue and Bill Gross Stem Cell Research Center, 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 Biomedical Engineering, University of California, Irvine, Irvine, California, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.