Two of the twelve tendons in the specimens were provided in the NonlinearBeamColumn elements representing the bottom flange of the specimens.
The specimens were provided by the Chungbuk National University Hospital, a member of the National Biobank of Korea, which is supported by the Ministry of Health, Welfare, and Family Affairs.
By means of illustration, a typical DIC movie showing the loading and the unloading phase of the specimen is provided in the Additional files 1 and 2. To overcome the practical issues with the analysis of the data due to the local heterogeneity of the different strain maps, a cumulative strain distribution was created.
A list of the primers used for barcoding of these specimens is provided in Additional file 1.
Support for the collection of research specimens was provided by the National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA; United States), NOAA's National Undersea Research Program, and UNCW's Coastal Oceans Research and Monitoring Program.
Among the 172 patients who underwent standard treatment, informed consent to use specimens was provided from 167 patients, for whom the median follow up term was 55 months (range 11 122 months).
In this paper chromatic variability of all the collected specimens were provided and the accuracy of initial morphological identification was discussed.
All the liver specimens were provided by the Department of Pathology, West China Hospital, Sichuan University.
The required sterile specimens were provided by the microbiology research laboratory and the cultures did not incur any financial costs for the patients.
Damselfish specimens were primarily selected from the fish collection of the Field Museum of Natural History, and additional specimens were provided by the Australian Museum, the Scripps Institution of Oceanography and the United States National Museum of Natural History in the Smithsonian Institution.
