About the Authors

Svetlana Lockwood

Affiliations School of Molecular Biosciences, Washington State University, Pullman, Washington, United States of America, School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Washington State University, Pullman, Washington, United States of America

Bala Krishnamoorthy

Affiliation Department of Mathematics, Washington State University, Pullman, Washington, United States of America

Ping Ye

pye@wsu.edu

Affiliation School of Molecular Biosciences, Washington State University, Pullman, Washington, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: PY. Performed the experiments: SL BK PY. Analyzed the data: SL BK PY. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: SL BK PY. Wrote the paper: PY.