About the Authors

Michael A. Buice

mabuice@mail.clm.utexas.edu (MAB); carsonc@mail.nih.gov (CCC)

Affiliation Laboratory of Biological Modeling, NIDDK, NIH, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Carson C. Chow

mabuice@mail.clm.utexas.edu (MAB); carsonc@mail.nih.gov (CCC)

Affiliation Laboratory of Biological Modeling, NIDDK, NIH, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: MAB CCC. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: MAB CCC. Wrote the paper: MAB CCC.