About the Authors

Ericka Mochan-Keef

edm29@pitt.edu

Affiliation Joint Carnegie Mellon University-University of Pittsburgh PhD Program in Computational Biology, Pittsburgh, PA, United States of America

David Swigon

Affiliation Department of Mathematics, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, United States of America

G. Bard Ermentrout

Affiliation Department of Mathematics, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, United States of America

Gilles Clermont

Affiliations Department of Critical Care Medicine, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, United States of America, McGowan Institute for Regenerative Medicine, Center for Inflammation and Regenerative Modeling, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: EMK DS GBE GC. Performed the experiments: EMK. Analyzed the data: EMK. Wrote the paper: EMK DS GBE GC.