About the Authors

Stephanie M. Willerth

Contributed equally to this work with: Stephanie M. Willerth, Hélder A. M. Pedro

Affiliation Department of Chemical Engineering and the Helen Wills Neuroscience Institute, University of California, Berkeley, California, United States of America

Hélder A. M. Pedro

Contributed equally to this work with: Stephanie M. Willerth, Hélder A. M. Pedro

Affiliation Department of Bioengineering, University of California, Berkeley, California, United States of America

Lior Pachter

Affiliation Department of Mathematics and Molecular and Cell Biology, University of California, Berkeley, California, United States of America

Laurent M. Humeau

Affiliation VIRxSYS Corporation, Gaithersburg, Maryland, United States of America

Adam P. Arkin

schaffer@berkeley.edu (DVS); aparkin@lbl.gov (APA)

Affiliation Department of Bioengineering, University of California, Berkeley, California, United States of America

David V. Schaffer

schaffer@berkeley.edu (DVS); aparkin@lbl.gov (APA)

Affiliations Department of Chemical Engineering and the Helen Wills Neuroscience Institute, University of California, Berkeley, California, United States of America, Department of Bioengineering, University of California, Berkeley, California, United States of America

Competing Interests

The first author (Stephanie M. Willerth) and the fourth author (Laurent M. Humeau) had their salaries paid for by the VIRxSYS corporation. The second author (Hélder A.M. Pedro) was sponsnsored in part by Siemens SA Portugal. The funding provided by these companies did not alter the authors' adherence to all the PLoS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: SMW HAMP LP LMH APA DVS. Performed the experiments: SMW. Analyzed the data: HAMP. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: HAMP LMH. Wrote the paper: SMW HAMP. Reviewed and commented on drafts of manuscaript: DVS. Revised and approved the final version of the article: LP LMH APA.