About the Authors

Isis Narváez-Bandera

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Software, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Bioengineering Graduate Program, The Applied Optimization Group, University of Puerto Rico-Mayagüez, Mayagüez, Puerto Rico

Deiver Suárez-Gómez

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Software, Validation, Visualization

Affiliation Bioengineering Graduate Program, The Applied Optimization Group, University of Puerto Rico-Mayagüez, Mayagüez, Puerto Rico

Clara E. Isaza

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Bioengineering Graduate Program, The Applied Optimization Group, University of Puerto Rico-Mayagüez, Mayagüez, Puerto Rico, Public Health Program, Ponce Health Sciences University, Ponce, Puerto Rico, Basic Sciences Department, Ponce Health Sciences University, Ponce, Puerto Rico, Biology Department, University of Puerto Rico-Mayagüez, Mayagüez, Puerto Rico

Mauricio Cabrera-Ríos

Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

mauricio.cabrera1@upr.edu

Affiliations Bioengineering Graduate Program, The Applied Optimization Group, University of Puerto Rico-Mayagüez, Mayagüez, Puerto Rico, Industrial Engineering Department, The Applied Optimization Group, University of Puerto Rico-Mayagüez, Mayagüez, Puerto Rico

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.