About the Authors

Leighton T. Izu

ltizu@ucdavis.edu

Affiliation Department of Pharmacology, University of California, Davis, Davis, California, United States of America

Tamás Bányász

Affiliations Department of Pharmacology, University of California, Davis, Davis, California, United States of America, Department of Physiology, University of Debrecen, Debrecen, Hungary

Ye Chen-Izu

Affiliations Department of Pharmacology, University of California, Davis, Davis, California, United States of America, Department of Medicine, University of California, Davis, Davis, California, United States of America, Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of California, Davis, Davis, California, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: LTI TB YC. Performed the experiments: LTI YC. Analyzed the data: LTI. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: LTI. Wrote the paper: LTI YC. Developed Sloppy Algorithm and convergence proof: LTI. Pointed out critical flaw and proposed solution: TB.