About the Authors

Abbas Shirinifard

ashirini@indiana.edu

Affiliation The Biocomplexity Institute and Department of Physics, Indiana University Bloomington, Bloomington, Indiana, United States of America

James Alexander Glazier

Affiliation The Biocomplexity Institute and Department of Physics, Indiana University Bloomington, Bloomington, Indiana, United States of America

Maciej Swat

Affiliation The Biocomplexity Institute and Department of Physics, Indiana University Bloomington, Bloomington, Indiana, United States of America

J. Scott Gens

Affiliation The Biocomplexity Institute and Department of Physics, Indiana University Bloomington, Bloomington, Indiana, United States of America

Fereydoon Family

Affiliation Department of Physics, Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America

Yi Jiang

Affiliations Department of Mathematics and Statistics, Georgia State University, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America, Theoretical Division, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, New Mexico, United States of America

Hans E. Grossniklaus

Affiliation L.F. Montgomery Ophthalmic Pathology Laboratory, Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: AS JAG JSG FF YJ HEG. Performed the experiments: AS. Analyzed the data: AS JAG. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: AS MS. Wrote the paper: AS JAG.