About the Authors

Elife Z. Bagci

Affiliations Department of Computational Biology, McGowan Institute for Regenerative Medicine, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Genetics, McGowan Institute for Regenerative Medicine, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Yoram Vodovotz

Affiliations Department of Surgery, School of Medicine, McGowan Institute for Regenerative Medicine, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America, Center for Inflammation and Regenerative Modeling, McGowan Institute for Regenerative Medicine, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Timothy R. Billiar

Affiliation Department of Surgery, School of Medicine, McGowan Institute for Regenerative Medicine, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Bard Ermentrout

bahar@ccbb.pitt.edu (IB); bard@math.pitt.edu (BE)

Affiliation Department of Mathematics, Arts & Sciences, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Ivet Bahar

bahar@ccbb.pitt.edu (IB); bard@math.pitt.edu (BE)

Affiliation Department of Computational Biology, McGowan Institute for Regenerative Medicine, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: TB YV IB BE. Performed the experiments: EB. Analyzed the data: EB. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: YV BE. Wrote the paper: EB.