About the Authors

James Crowcombe

james.crowcombe@gmail.com (JC); a.sik@bham.ac.uk (AS)

Affiliation School of Engineering, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, United Kingdom

Sundeep Singh Dhillon

Affiliations Institute of Cancer and Genomic Sciences, College of Medical and Dental Sciences, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, United Kingdom, Institute of Clinical Sciences, College of Medical and Dental Sciences, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, United Kingdom

Rhiannon Mary Hurst

Affiliations Institute of Cancer and Genomic Sciences, College of Medical and Dental Sciences, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, United Kingdom, Institute of Clinical Sciences, College of Medical and Dental Sciences, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, United Kingdom

Stuart Egginton

Affiliation School of Biomedical Sciences, Faculty of Biological Sciences, University of Leeds, Leeds, United Kingdom

Ferenc Müller

Affiliation Institute of Cancer and Genomic Sciences, College of Medical and Dental Sciences, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, United Kingdom

Attila Sík

james.crowcombe@gmail.com (JC); a.sik@bham.ac.uk (AS)

Affiliation Institute of Clinical Sciences, College of Medical and Dental Sciences, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, United Kingdom

Edward Tarte

Affiliation School of Engineering, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, United Kingdom

Competing Interests

Ferenc Müller is academic editor at PLOS ONE. There are no patents, products in development or marketed products to declare. This does not alter the authors' adherence to all the PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials, as detailed online in the guide for authors.

Author Contributions

Conceptualization: AS ET FM JC SE. Data curation: JC SD RH. Formal analysis: JC SD RH. Funding acquisition: SE FM AS ET. Investigation: JC SD RH. Methodology: JC SD RH. Project administration: SE FM AS ET. Software: JC. Supervision: SE FM AS ET. Validation: JC SD RH. Visualization: JC SD. Writing – original draft: JC SD RH SE FM AS ET. Writing – review & editing: JC SD SE AS ET.