About the Authors
- Christopher W. Woods
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Contributed equally to this work with: Christopher W. Woods, Micah T. McClain
* E-mail: chris.woods@duke.edu (CW); geoffrey.ginsburg@duke.edu (GG)
Affiliations Institute for Genome Sciences and Policy, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America, Division of Infectious Diseases, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America, Durham Veteran’s Affairs Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America
- Micah T. McClain
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Contributed equally to this work with: Christopher W. Woods, Micah T. McClain
Affiliations Division of Infectious Diseases, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America, Durham Veteran’s Affairs Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America
- Minhua Chen
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Affiliation Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America
- Aimee K. Zaas
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Affiliations Institute for Genome Sciences and Policy, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America, Division of Infectious Diseases, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America
- Bradly P. Nicholson
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Affiliation Durham Veteran’s Affairs Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America
- Jay Varkey
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Affiliation Division of Infectious Diseases, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America
- Timothy Veldman
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Affiliation Institute for Genome Sciences and Policy, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America
- Stephen F. Kingsmore
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Affiliation National Center for Genome Resources, Santa Fe, New Mexico, United States of America
- Yongsheng Huang
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Affiliation Center for Computational Biology and Bioinformatics, University of Michigan, Ann Arobor, Michigan, United States of America
- Robert Lambkin-Williams
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Affiliation Retroscreen Virology, London, United Kingdom
- Anthony G. Gilbert
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Affiliation Retroscreen Virology, London, United Kingdom
- Alfred O. Hero III
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Affiliation Center for Computational Biology and Bioinformatics, University of Michigan, Ann Arobor, Michigan, United States of America
- Elizabeth Ramsburg
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Affiliation Duke Human Vaccine Institute, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America
- Seth Glickman
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Affiliation Department of Emergency Medicine, University of North Carolina-Chapel-Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States of America
- Joseph E. Lucas
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Affiliation Institute for Genome Sciences and Policy, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America
- Lawrence Carin
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Affiliation Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America
- Geoffrey S. Ginsburg
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* E-mail: chris.woods@duke.edu (CW); geoffrey.ginsburg@duke.edu (GG)
Affiliation Institute for Genome Sciences and Policy, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America
Competing Interests
The viral signature developed from this work is indeed the subject of a pending patent held by Dr's Ginsburg, Woods, Zaas, Lucas, Hero and Carin: PCT Application No. PCT/US2010/036257, “METHODS OF IDENTIFYING INFECTIOUS DISEASE AND ASSAYS FOR IDENTIFYING INFECTIOUS DISEASE” (File date 5/2010). However, this does not conflict with PLOS One policies and the research data will be made publically available according to the journal”s policy. Dr. Gilbert and Dr. Lambkin-Williams are employed by Retroscreen Virology, as mentioned in the Authors” affiliations portion of the manuscript. This company was involved in oversight of the conduction of the viral challenge studies utilized in the current manuscript. This does not in any way alter the authors' adherence to all of the PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.
Author Contributions
Conceived and designed the experiments: CWW GSG TV LC RL-W AGG. Performed the experiments: CWW MTM BN JV RL-W AGG SG ER. Analyzed the data: CWW MTM MC AKZ YH AOH JL LC GSG. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: SFK YH RL-W AGG AOH ER JL LC. Wrote the paper: CWW MTM AKZ GSG.