About the Authors

Daniel B. Forger

forger@umich.edu

Affiliations Department of Mathematics and Center for Computational Medicine and Bioinformatics, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States of America, Marine Biological Laboratory, Woods Hole, Massachusetts, United States of America

David Paydarfar

Affiliations Marine Biological Laboratory, Woods Hole, Massachusetts, United States of America, Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering, Harvard University, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Departments of Neurology and Physiology, University of Massachusetts Medical School, Worcester, Massachusetts, United States of America

John R. Clay

Affiliations National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America, Marine Biological Laboratory, Woods Hole, Massachusetts, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: DBF DP. Performed the experiments: JRC. Analyzed the data: DBF. Wrote the paper: DBF DP JRC.