About the Authors

Elaine O. Nsoesie

onelaine@vbi.vt.edu

Affiliation Network Dynamics and Simulation Science Laboratory, Virginia Bioinformatics Institute, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Virginia, United States of America

Richard J. Beckman

Affiliation Network Dynamics and Simulation Science Laboratory, Virginia Bioinformatics Institute, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Virginia, United States of America

Sara Shashaani

Affiliation Network Dynamics and Simulation Science Laboratory, Virginia Bioinformatics Institute, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Virginia, United States of America

Kalyani S. Nagaraj

Affiliation Network Dynamics and Simulation Science Laboratory, Virginia Bioinformatics Institute, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Virginia, United States of America

Madhav V. Marathe

Affiliations Network Dynamics and Simulation Science Laboratory, Virginia Bioinformatics Institute, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Virginia, United States of America, Department of Computer Science, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Virginia, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: EON RJB SS KSN MVM. Performed the experiments: EON SS. Analyzed the data: EON SS. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: EON RJB SS KSN MVM. Wrote the paper: EON RJB SS KSN MVM.