About the Authors

Joseph A. Leedale

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Software, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

j.leedale@liverpool.ac.uk (JAL); davehay@talktalk.net (DCH)

Affiliation Department of Mathematical Sciences, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, United Kingdom

Baltasar Lucendo-Villarin

Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation MRC Centre for Regenerative Medicine, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, United Kingdom

Jose Meseguer-Ripolles

Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation MRC Centre for Regenerative Medicine, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, United Kingdom

Alvile Kasarinaite

Roles Methodology

Affiliation MRC Centre for Regenerative Medicine, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, United Kingdom

Steven D. Webb

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Writing – review & editing

Current address: Syngenta, Early Stage Research, Product Safety, Jealott’s Hill, Bracknell, Berkshire, United Kingdom

Affiliation Department of Applied Mathematics, Liverpool John Moores University, Liverpool, United Kingdom

David C. Hay

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

j.leedale@liverpool.ac.uk (JAL); davehay@talktalk.net (DCH)

Affiliation MRC Centre for Regenerative Medicine, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, United Kingdom

Competing Interests

The authors have read the journal’s policy and the authors of this manuscript have the following competing interests: SDW contributed to this work whilst employed as an academic at Liverpool John Moores University. He has since taken up employment at Syngenta and has interests in the company. DCH is a co-founder, director and shareholder of Stemnovate Limited. 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.