About the Authors

Ke Xu

Affiliations Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of North Carolina School of Medicine, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States of America, Department of Pharmacology, University of North Carolina School of Medicine, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States of America

Kevin T. Morgan

Affiliation Old Dogs in Training, Carrboro, North Carolina, United States of America

Abby Todd Gehris

Affiliation Department of Mathematics, Broome Community College, Binghamton, New York, United States of America

Timothy C. Elston

telston@amath.unc.edu (TCE); smgomez@unc.edu (SMG)

Affiliation Department of Pharmacology, University of North Carolina School of Medicine, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States of America

Shawn M. Gomez

telston@amath.unc.edu (TCE); smgomez@unc.edu (SMG)

Affiliations Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of North Carolina School of Medicine, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States of America, Department of Pharmacology, University of North Carolina School of Medicine, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States of America, Department of Computer Science, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: KX KTM ATG TCE SMG. Performed the experiments: KX ATG. Analyzed the data: KX KTM ATG TCE SMG. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: KX KTM ATG TCE SMG. Wrote the paper: KX KTM TCE SMG.