About the Authors

Guy Zinman

Affiliation Lane Center for Computational Biology, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Rachel Brower-Sinning

Affiliation Department of Computational Biology, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Chineye H. Emeche

Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Jason Ernst

Affiliation Lane Center for Computational Biology, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Grace Tzu-Wei Huang

Affiliation Department of Computational Biology, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Shaun Mahony

Affiliation Department of Computational Biology, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Amy J. Myers

Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Dawn M. O'Dee

Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America

JoAnne L. Flynn

Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Gerard J. Nau

Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Ted M. Ross

Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Russell D. Salter

Affiliation Department of Immunology, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Panayiotis V. Benos

Affiliation Department of Computational Biology, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Ziv Bar Joseph

morel@pitt.edu (PAM); zivbj@cs.cmu.edu (ZBJ)

Affiliation Lane Center for Computational Biology, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Penelope A. Morel

morel@pitt.edu (PAM); zivbj@cs.cmu.edu (ZBJ)

Affiliation Department of Immunology, 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: JLF GJN TMR RDS PAM. Performed the experiments: AJM CHE DMO. Analyzed the data: GZ RBS GTWH ZBJ PVB PAM. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: JE SM. Wrote the paper: GZ PVB ZBJ PAM.