About the Authors

Raibatak Das

dodo@math.ubc.ca

Affiliation Department of Mathematics and Institute of Applied Mathematics, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Christopher W. Cairo

Affiliation Alberta Ingenuity Centre for Carbohydrate Science, Department of Chemistry, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada

Daniel Coombs

Affiliation Department of Mathematics and Institute of Applied Mathematics, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: CC. Performed the experiments: CC. Analyzed the data: RD CC. Wrote the paper: RD CC DC. Proposed and developed the model: RD DC.