About the Authors

Morgane Rolland

Contributed equally to this work with: Morgane Rolland, Nicole Frahm

mrolland@hivresearch.org

Current address: Military HIV Research Program, Henry M. Jackson Foundation, Rockville, Maryland, United States of America

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, United States of America

Nicole Frahm

Contributed equally to this work with: Morgane Rolland, Nicole Frahm

Current address: Vaccine and Infectious Disease Institute, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, Washington, United States of America

Affiliation Massachussets General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

David C. Nickle

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, United States of America

Nebojsa Jojic

Affiliation AIDS Research Institute IrsiCaixa - HIVACAT, Hospital Germans Trias i Pujol, Badalona, Barcelona, Spain

Wenjie Deng

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, United States of America

Todd M. Allen

Affiliation Massachussets General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Christian Brander

Affiliations Massachussets General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, AIDS Research Institute IrsiCaixa - HIVACAT, Hospital Germans Trias i Pujol, Badalona, Barcelona, Spain, Institució Catalana de Recerca i Estudis Avançats (ICREA), Barcelona, Spain

David E. Heckerman

Affiliation Microsoft Research, Redmond, Washington, United States of America

James I. Mullins

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, United States of America

Competing Interests

David E. Heckerman is an employee of Microsoft Research. This does not alter the authors' adherence to all the PLoS ONE policies on sharing data and materials, as detailed online in the guide for authors.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: MR NF DCN NJ CB DEH JIM. Performed the experiments: MR NF DCN NJ DEH. Analyzed the data: MR NF CB DEH JIM. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: WD TMA. Wrote the paper: MR NF CB JIM.