About the Authors

Zhenling Peng

Affiliation Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada

Yoshihisa Sakai

Affiliation Department of Otolaryngology - Head and Neck Surgery, Morsani College of Medicine, University of South Florida, Tampa, Florida, United States of America

Lukasz Kurgan

Affiliation Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada

Bernd Sokolowski

bsokolow@health.usf.edu

Affiliation Department of Otolaryngology - Head and Neck Surgery, Morsani College of Medicine, University of South Florida, Tampa, Florida, United States of America

Vladimir Uversky

Affiliations Department of Molecular Medicine and Byrd Alzheimer’s Research Institute, Morsani College of Medicine, University of South Florida, Tampa, Florida, United States of America, Department of Biological Sciences, Faculty of Science, King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, Institute for Biological Instrumentation, Russian Academy of Sciences, Pushchino, Moscow Region, Russia

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: VU LK BS. Performed the experiments: ZP VU. Analyzed the data: ZP LK VU. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: YS BS. Wrote the paper: LK VU BS.