About the Authors

Thomas Westergard

Affiliations Department of Neuroscience, Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America, Center for Computational and Integrative Biology, Rutgers University-Camden, Camden, New Jersey, United States of America

Reza Salari

Affiliations Center for Computational and Integrative Biology, Rutgers University-Camden, Camden, New Jersey, United States of America, Department of Physics, Rutgers University-Camden, Camden, New Jersey, United States of America

Joseph V. Martin

Affiliations Center for Computational and Integrative Biology, Rutgers University-Camden, Camden, New Jersey, United States of America, Department of Biology, Rutgers University-Camden, Camden, New Jersey, United States of America

Grace Brannigan

grace.brannigan@rutgers.edu

Affiliations Center for Computational and Integrative Biology, Rutgers University-Camden, Camden, New Jersey, United States of America, Department of Physics, Rutgers University-Camden, Camden, New Jersey, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: TW JM GB. Performed the experiments: TW. Analyzed the data: TW RS GB. Wrote the paper: TW JM GB. Wrote python or VMD scripts used in analysis of computational data: RS GB.