About the Authors

Ying Zhang

zhangy14@mail.nih.gov

Affiliation Cancer and Developmental Biology Laboratory, National Cancer Institute, Frederick, Maryland, United States of America

Gilberto L. Thomas

Affiliation Instituto de Física, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre, Brazil

Maciej Swat

Affiliation Biocomplexity Institute and Department of Physics, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana, United States of America

Abbas Shirinifard

Affiliation Biocomplexity Institute and Department of Physics, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana, United States of America

James A. Glazier

Affiliation Biocomplexity Institute and Department of Physics, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: YZ JAG GLT AS. Performed the experiments: YZ GLT AS. Analyzed the data: GLT YZ JAG. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: YZ GLT MS AS. Wrote the paper: GLT YZ JAG MS. Helped with coding: MS.