About the Authors

William F. Flynn

Contributed equally to this work with: William F. Flynn, Max W. Chang

Affiliations Department of Physics and Astronomy, Rutgers University, Piscataway, New Jersey, United States of America, Center for Biophysics and Computational Biology, Temple University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Max W. Chang

Contributed equally to this work with: William F. Flynn, Max W. Chang

Affiliation Department of Molecular and Experimental Medicine, The Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, California, United States of America

Zhiqiang Tan

Affiliation Department of Statistics, Rutgers University, Piscataway, New Jersey, United States of America

Glenn Oliveira

Affiliation Department of Molecular and Experimental Medicine, The Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, California, United States of America

Jinyun Yuan

Affiliation Department of Molecular and Experimental Medicine, The Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, California, United States of America

Jason F. Okulicz

Affiliation Infectious Disease Service, San Antonio Military Medical Center, San Antonio, Texas, United States of America

Bruce E. Torbett

betorbet@scripps.edu (BET); ronlevy@temple.edu (RML)

Affiliation Department of Molecular and Experimental Medicine, The Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, California, United States of America

Ronald M. Levy

betorbet@scripps.edu (BET); ronlevy@temple.edu (RML)

Affiliations Center for Biophysics and Computational Biology, Temple University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America, Department of Chemistry, and Institute for Computational Molecular Science, Temple University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: BET MWC RML. Performed the experiments: MWC JY GO. Analyzed the data: MWC WFF ZT RML BET. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: JFO ZT. Wrote the paper: WFF MWC ZT RML BET. Analyzed and aligned sequences: MWC WFF.