About the Authors

Alfred L. Yergey

alyergey@gmail.com

Affiliation Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, United States of America

Paul S. Blank

Affiliation Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, United States of America

Stephanie M. Cologna

Affiliation Department of Chemistry, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL, United States of America

Peter S. Backlund

Affiliation Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, United States of America

Forbes D. Porter

Affiliation Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, United States of America

Allan J. Darling

Affiliation Vtesse, Inc., Gaithersburg, MD, United States of America

Competing Interests

AD was supported in the form of salary by Vtesse Inc. There are no patents, products in development, or marketed products to declare. This does not alter our adherence to PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.

Author Contributions

Conceptualization: AY P. Blank SC AD. Data curation: AY. Formal analysis: AY P. Blank SC AD. Funding acquisition: AY. Investigation: AY AD. Methodology: AY P. Blank SC P. Backlund AD. Project administration: AY. Resources: AY AD. Supervision: AY. Validation: AY P. Blank SC. Visualization: AY P. Blank SC P. Backlund FP AD. Writing – original draft: AY P. Blank SC P. Backlund FP AD. Writing – review & editing: AY P. Blank SC P. Backlund FP AD.