About the Authors

Brian Li

Contributed equally to this work with: Brian Li, Kristen L. Cotner

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Software, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation UC Berkeley–UCSF Graduate Program in Bioengineering, University of California, Berkeley and San Francisco, California, United States of America

Kristen L. Cotner

Contributed equally to this work with: Brian Li, Kristen L. Cotner

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation UC Berkeley–UCSF Graduate Program in Bioengineering, University of California, Berkeley and San Francisco, California, United States of America

Nathaniel K. Liu

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Investigation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of California, Berkeley, California, United States of America

Stefan Hinz

Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Population Sciences, Beckman Research Institute, City of Hope, Duarte, California, United States of America

Mark A. LaBarge

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

Affiliation Department of Population Sciences, Beckman Research Institute, City of Hope, Duarte, California, United States of America

Lydia L. Sohn

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

sohn@berkeley.edu

Affiliations UC Berkeley–UCSF Graduate Program in Bioengineering, University of California, Berkeley and San Francisco, California, United States of America, Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of California, Berkeley, California, United States of America

Competing Interests

I have read the journal’s policy and the authors of this manuscript have the following competing interests: L.L.S. is listed as an inventor on the patent application for “Mechano-node pore sensing” (US201662407425P, WO2018071731A1). This does not alter our adherence to PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.