About the Authors

Jared B. Hawkins

Current address: Center for Biomedical Informatics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America.

Affiliation Department of Integrative Physiology and Pathobiology, Tufts University School of Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Edgar Delgado-Eckert

Affiliation University Children's Hospital (UKBB), University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland

David A. Thorley-Lawson

Contributed equally to this work with: David A. Thorley-Lawson, Michael Shapiro

david.thorley-lawson@tufts.edu

Affiliation Department of Integrative Physiology and Pathobiology, Tufts University School of Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Michael Shapiro

Contributed equally to this work with: David A. Thorley-Lawson, Michael Shapiro

Affiliations Department of Integrative Physiology and Pathobiology, Tufts University School of Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Dept. of Mathematics, Tufts University, Medford, Massachusetts, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: JBH EDE DATL MS. Performed the experiments: JBH EDE MS. Analyzed the data: JBH EDE DATL MS. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: EDE MS. Wrote the paper: JBH EDE DATL MS.