About the Authors

L. Charles Bailey

baileyc@email.chop.edu

Affiliations Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America

David E. Milov

Affiliation Nemours Children’s Hospital, Orlando, Florida, United States of America

Kelly Kelleher

Affiliation Nationwide Children’s Hospital, Columbus, Ohio, United States of America

Michael G. Kahn

Affiliation Children’s Hospital of Colorado, Aurora, Colorado, United States of America

Mark Del Beccaro

Affiliation Seattle Children’s Hospital, Seattle, WA;

Feliciano Yu

Affiliation St. Louis Children’s Hospital, St. Louis, Missouri, United States of America

Thomas Richards

Affiliation Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Christopher B. Forrest

Affiliations Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Competing Interests

Johns Hopkins University holds the copyright for the ACG software. Consistent with the University’s technology transfer policies, Christopher Forrest receives an inventor’s share of the royalties from the ACG software. Thomas Richards is currently a member of the ACG development group at JHU. The authors benefit from free access to the ACG System software. This does not alter the authors’ adherence to all the PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: LCB CBF. Performed the experiments: LCB DM KK MK MDB FY TR CBF. Analyzed the data: LCB TR CBF. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: LCB DM KK MK MDB FY TR. Wrote the paper: LCB CBF. Reviewed and revised the manuscript: LCB DM KK MK MDB FY TR CBF.