About the Authors

Sridhar Ranganathan

Affiliation Huck Institutes of Life Sciences, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Patrick F. Suthers

Affiliation Department of Chemical Engineering, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Costas D. Maranas

costas@engr.psu.edu

Affiliation Department of Chemical Engineering, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: SR CDM. Performed the experiments: SR. Analyzed the data: SR CDM. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: SR PFS CDM. Wrote the paper: SR CDM.