About the Authors

Bing Zhao

Contributed equally to this work with: Bing Zhao, Changjiang Zhang

Affiliation Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences, University of Kentucky, Lexington, Kentucky, United States of America

Changjiang Zhang

Contributed equally to this work with: Bing Zhao, Changjiang Zhang

Affiliation Department of Computer Science, Laboratory for High Performance Computing and Computer Simulation, University of Kentucky, Lexington, Kentucky, United States of America

Kimberly Forsten-Williams

Affiliation Department of Chemical Engineering, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg, Virginia, United States of America

Jun Zhang

Affiliation Department of Computer Science, Laboratory for High Performance Computing and Computer Simulation, University of Kentucky, Lexington, Kentucky, United States of America

Michael Fannon

michael.fannon@uky.edu

Affiliation Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences, University of Kentucky, Lexington, Kentucky, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: KFW MF. Performed the experiments: BZ CZ. Analyzed the data: BZ CZ KFW JZ MF. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: JZ. Wrote the paper: BZ CZ KFW MF.