About the Authors

Byoungkoo Lee

Affiliation Department of Mathematics and Statistics, Georgia State University, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America

Xin Zhou

Affiliation School of Physics, Graduate University of Chinese Academy of Science, Beijing, China

Kristin Riching

Affiliations Laboratory for Optical and Computational Instrumentation, Laboratory for Cell and Molecular Biology and Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, Wisconsin, United States of America, Department of Cell and Regenerative Biology, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, Wisconsin, United States of America

Kevin W. Eliceiri

Affiliation Laboratory for Optical and Computational Instrumentation, Laboratory for Cell and Molecular Biology and Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, Wisconsin, United States of America

Patricia J. Keely

Affiliations Laboratory for Optical and Computational Instrumentation, Laboratory for Cell and Molecular Biology and Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, Wisconsin, United States of America, Department of Cell and Regenerative Biology, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, Wisconsin, United States of America

Scott A. Guelcher

Affiliation Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee, United States of America

Alissa M. Weaver

Affiliation Department of Cancer Biology, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, Tennessee, United States of America

Yi Jiang

yjiang12@gsu.edu

Affiliation Department of Mathematics and Statistics, Georgia State University, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: BL KWE PJK SAG AW YJ. Performed the experiments: BL KR. Analyzed the data: BL PJK AW YJ. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: BL XZ KR YJ. Wrote the paper: BL XZ KR PJK AW YJ.